Research Catalog

Title

Questioning Ayn Rand : subjectivity, political economy, and the arts / Neil Cocks, editor.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Cocks, Neil, 1971-

Description

ix, 241 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rands works and her wider Objectivist philosophy. While Rands 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. Rands 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 Rands works in the context of wider political, economic, and philosophical debates.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics.

Subjects

• Neoliberalism
• Objectivism (Philosophy)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Rand, Ayn > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: uncanny Rand, Neil Cocks -- Chapter 2: Reading Ayn Rand psychoanalytically: ethics, libertarian and otherwise, Ian Parker -- Chapter 3: Psychologization, what it is and what it is not: Objectivism, psychology, and Silicon Valley, Jan de Vos -- Chapter 4: Narrated Rand: HUAC, engraved invitations, and the real of sexual difference, Neil Cocks -- Chapter 5: The American mythology of individualism: Emerson, Ayn Rand, and the Romantic child, Kristina West -- Chapter 6: Selfish cinema: sex, heroism, and control in adaptations of Ayn Rand for the screen, Lisa Downing -- Chapter 7: At home with Marx and Rand: returning man in prehistory, Bonnie McGill -- Chapter 8: The New Left: Rand, pedagogy, and 'the cure, Jerome Cox- Strong -- Chapter 9: Topographies of Liberal Thought: Rand and Arendt and Race, Stephen Thomson -- Chapter 10: '"Oh, that's Francisco's private joke" [...]: Atlas Shrugged, the gold standard, and utopia, Neil Cocks.

Call Number

JFD 20-4046

ISBN

• 3030530728
• 9783030530723
• 9783030530730 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1158190786

Title

Questioning Ayn Rand : subjectivity, political economy, and the arts / Neil Cocks, editor.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics

Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cocks, Neil, 1971- editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030530730

Research Call Number

JFD 20-4046