Out of a Gray Fog

Ayn Rand’s Europe

AvClaudia Franziska Bruhwiler,Lee Trepanier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Politics, Literature, & Film

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Beskrivning

“As to Europe—keep it in a gray, ominous, evil fog.”—Ayn Rand (1905–1982) thus commented on the role of Europe in her key novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). The same could be said of the way Europe features in her own biography and in the general perception of her persona. Even though Rand was born in pre-revolutionary Russia, she is nowadays considered anAmerican phenomenon, whose reach ends at the Atlantic shore. This book lifts the "gray fog" cast over her relationship with Europe, retracing the changing perception of the continent in both her fiction and thought. Her apparent lack of success with European readers is often explained by allegedly different reading tastes. However, a look at her publication history and reception shows that many factors played a role why her work found fewer European than US readers. Finally, an archipelago of European readers and admirers emerges which is testament to Rand's impact on European art and politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-19
Mått:161 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt:658 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Politics, Literature, & Film
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793636850

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Claudia Franziska Brühwiler holds a doctorate in Political Science and a venia legendi (PD; Privatdozentin) in American Studies from the University of St.Gallen where she teaches U.S. politics, history, and culture.

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Claudia Bruhwiler has accomplished something utterly remarkable in Out of the Gray Fog. She has captured - in beautiful, nuanced prose - a series of undiscovered connections between European and American intellectual life, and in doing so she has brought to life an unknown Ayn Rand, preoccupied not just with questions of political economy but of overcoming her Russian past while articulating a complex of ideas, stories and narratives intended for audiences in the United States, Europe, Russia and beyond. This original, path-breaking book is literary and intellectual history at its very best; it is an indispensable study of twentieth-century ideas.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: All-American Rand?Chapter 1: Writer, Philosopher, Icon, Dime-Store Ideologue? Categorizing RandChapter 2: Choosing America, Being EuropeanChapter 3: “A Huge Cemetery”: Russia as DystopiaChapter 4: Rand’s Europe: From Utopia to a “State-worshipping Culture”Chapter 5: Kantian Evils and Aristotelian Misunderstandings: Randian Usage of European PhilosophyChapter 6: Lost in Translation: Publishing Rand in EuropeChapter 7: Tea Party Icon and Capitalist Porn: Rand in the European MediaChapter 8: A European Collective? Randian Thought across the AtlanticChapter 9: Critical Reflections: Rand through the Lens of European Artists