A companion to Ayn Rand. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri.
• Editors: Gotthelf, Allan, 1942-2013; Salmieri, Gregory
• Contents: Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xii A Note on Abbreviations and References xiv Part I Context 1 1 An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand 3; Gregory Salmieri 2 The Life of Ayn Rand: Writing, Reading, and Related Life Events 22; Shoshana Milgram Part II Ethics and Human Nature 47 3 The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values) 49; Gregory Salmieri 4 The Morality of Life 73; Allan Gotthelf (completed by Gregory Salmieri) 5 A Being of Self-Made Soul 105; Onkar Ghate 6 Egoism and Altruism: Selfi shness and Sacrifice 130; Gregory Salmieri Part III Society 157 7 “A Human Society”: Rand’s Social Philosophy 159; Darryl Wright 8 Political Theory: A Radical for Capitalism 187; Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Adam Mossoff 9 Objective Law 209; Tara Smith 10 “A Free Mind and a Free Market are Corollaries”: Rand’s Philosophical Perspective on Capitalism 222; Onkar Ghate Part IV The Foundations of Objectivism 243 11 Objectivist Metaphysics: The Primacy of Existence 245; Jason G. Rheins 12 The Objectivist Epistemology 272; Gregory Salmieri Part V Philosophers and Their Effects 319 13 “Who Sets the Tone for a Culture?”: Ayn Rand’s Approach to the History of Philosophy 321; James G. Lennox 14 Ayn Rand’s Evolving View of Friedrich Nietzsche 343; Lester H. Hunt 15 A Philosopher on Her Times: Ayn Rand’s Political and Cultural Commentary 351; John David Lewis and Gregory Salmieri Part VI Art 403 16 The Objectivist Esthetics: Art and the Needs of a Conceptual Consciousness 405; Harry Binswanger 17 Rand’s Literary Romanticism 426; Tore Boeckmann Coda 451 18 Hallmarks of Objectivism: The Benevolent Universe Premise and the Heroic View of Man 453; Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Quasi-Primary Sources 463 Index 471
• Publisher Details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 191
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118324912
• Related ISBNs: 9781405186841
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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