Ayn Rand: An Introduction :An Introduction ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :An Introduction

Publication series :1

Author: Butler   Eamonn  

Publisher: London Publishing Partnership‎

Publication year: 2018

E-ISBN: 9780255367653

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780255367646

Subject: B712.59 Other

Keyword: 政治理论,经济学,哲学理论,小说集

Language: ENG

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Few 20th century intellectuals have been as influential – and controversial – as the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. Her thinking still has a profound impact, particularly on those who come to it through her novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead – with their core messages of individualism, self-worth, and the right to live without the impositions of others. Even though ignored or scorned by some academics, traditionalists, progressives, and public intellectuals, she remains a major influence on many of the world’s leading legislators, policy advisers, economists, entrepreneurs and investors. Why does Rand’s work remain so influential? Ayn Rand: An Introduction illuminates Rand’s importance, detailing her understanding of reality and human nature, and explores the ongoing fascination with and debates about her conclusions on knowledge, morality, politics, economics, government, public issues, aesthetics and literature. The book also places these in the context of her life and times, showing how revolutionary they were, and how they have influenced and continue to impact public policy debates.

Chapter

The author

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

What this book is about

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Rand, the author and this book

How this book is structured

2 Why Ayn Rand is important

The importance of Rand’s fiction

The importance of Rand’s thought

Critics and adherents

3 Rand’s life and writings

Turbulent childhood in Russia

New career in America

Breakthrough novel

The Objectivist movement and its discontents

Final years

Continuing influence

A timeline of Rand’s life and work

4 Outline of Rand’s worldview

Rand on reality

Rand on human knowledge

Rand on morality

Rand on politics and economics

Rand on art and literature

Rand’s image of a heroic being

5 Rand on the nature of reality

Basic axioms

Identity and causality

Existence and consciousness

Necessity and choice

The rejection of reality

6 How we understand the world

The process of understanding

Knowledge and its critics

7 Rand on morality

Facts and values

Life and objective value

Dealing with others

The importance of principle

Objectivist virtues

8 Politics and economics

Rational political principles

Other political philosophies

A rational and moral economy

9 Rand on public issues

The poverty of progressive schooling

College and student discontent

Old Left and New Left

Racism as collectivism

Environmentalism

Civil rights

Crime and terrorism

Economic policy

Foreign policy

10 The nature and importance of art

The process of artistic creation

The critical role of art

Art and life

The structure of art

Valid forms of art

Invalid forms of art

The principles of literary art

Romanticism in art and literature

Deficiencies in contemporary art

11 Rand’s novels

The goal of Rand’s fiction

12 Rand’s critics

Rand’s philosophical approach

Rand on reality and knowledge

Rand on morality

Rand on politics

Rand on capitalism

Rand on art and literature

Rand’s fiction

Ayn Rand’s legacy

13 Quotations by and about Rand

On herself

On reality and knowledge

On ethics

On altruism

On politics and economics

On heroism

Quotations about Rand

14 Further reading

How to read Ayn Rand

Short guides to Rand

Rand’s main fiction

Rand’s main non-fiction

Posthumous collections

Rand in her own words

Books on Rand

About the IEA

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