Questioning Ayn Rand

Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts

AvNeil Cocks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics

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Beskrivning

Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand’s works and her wider Objectivist philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-16
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:443 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
Antal sidor:241
Upplaga:20001
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030530723

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Neil Cocks is Associate Professor of Literary Perspective in the Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK. He is the author of Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood (Palgrave 2017) and The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism (Palgrave 2014).

Innehållsförteckning

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.