Questioning Ayn Rand by Neil Cocks
Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand’s works and her wider Objectivist philosophy. While Rand’s texts are often dismissed out of hand by those hostile to the ideology promoted within them, these essays argue instead that they need to be taken seriously and analysed in detail. Rand’s influential worldview does not tolerate uncertainty, relying as it does upon a notion of truth untroubled by doubt. In contrast, the contributors to this volume argue that any progressive response to Rand should resist the dubious comforts of a position of ethical or aesthetic purity, even as they challenge the reductive individualistic ideology promoted within her writing. Drawing on a range of sources and approaches from Psychoanalysis to The Gold Standard and from Hannah Arendt to Spiderman, these essays consider Rand’s works in the context of wider political, economic, and philosophical debates.
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Inflationary Modernities
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Value and the Humanities
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From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present
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Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain
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Political Economy and the Novel
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The Financial Image
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Financial Petroleum Cultures
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The Fictions of American Capitalism
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Modernist Poetics in China
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Early Modern Debts
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Economies of Scale
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| ISBN 13 | 9783030530754 |
| ISBN 10 | 3030530752 |
| Title | Questioning Ayn Rand |
| Author | Neil Cocks |
| Series | Palgrave Studies In Literature Culture And Economics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Year published | 2021-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 241 |
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