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E-bok
Engelska, 2009231 kr
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Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond. A passionate advocate of laissez-faire capitalism and individual rights, Rand remains a powerful force in the political perceptions of Americans today. Yet twenty-five years after her death, her readers know little about her life.In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author’s life from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout, Heller reveals previously unknown facts about Rand’s history and looks at Rand with new research and a fresh perspective. Based on original research in Russia, dozens of interviews with Rand’s acquaintances and former acolytes, and previously unexamined archives of tapes and letters, AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE is a comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century.From the Hardcover edition.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2009447 kr
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Ayn Rand is best known as the author of two phenomenally best-selling ideological novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which have sold over twelve million copies in the United States alone. Through them, she built a cult following in the late 1950s and became the guiding light of Libertarianism and of White House economic policy in the 1960s and ‘70s. Her defenses of radical individualism and of selfishness as a “capitalist virtue” have permanently altered the American cultural landscape.
Anne Conover Heller traveled to Russia to discover Rand’s Russian and Jewish roots and her misunderstood youth, interview surviving acquaintances, and unearth new archival material. The result is the most comprehensive, revealing and unbiased biography of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.
E-bok
Engelska, 2022160 kr
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The acclaimed biographer presents “a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher” and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem (Kirkus Reviews). Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal. Arendt’s first book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, single-handedly altered the way generations around the world viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, created fierce debate that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt’s contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a “conscious pariah”—one of those rare people who doesn’t “lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us” and will not “pay any price” to gain the acceptance of others.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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E-bok
Spanska, 2021108 kr
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Hannah Arendt, filósofa de la política y la cultura cuyas ideas han causado entusiasmo y animadversión, es una de las voces más originales y fértiles del siglo XX, ensalzada como una visionaria por sus iguales y tachada de presuntuosa y farsante por sus adversarios. Nacida en Prusia en una familia de judíos asimilados, huyó de la Alemania nazi en 1933. Hoy su figura permanece envuelta en la tormenta desatada a raíz de la publicación en The New Yorker, en 1963, de su reportaje sobre el juicio al criminal de guerra nazi Adolf Eichmann. Arendt fue una mujer con muchas contradicciones. Era brillante, bella en su juventud e irresistible para los hombres inteligentes, incluso en su madurez tan llena de cigarrillos como de ideas provocadoras. No aprendió a escribir en inglés hasta la edad de 36 años, pero escribió en esta lengua Los orígenes del totalitarismo, un libro que cambió para generaciones de europeos y estadounidenses la manera de entender el fascismo y el genocidio. Su obra más famosa y polémica, Eichmann en Jerusalén, desató feroces discusiones que todavía hoy resuenan, avivadas por el descubrimiento póstumo de su relación amorosa con el gran filósofo alemán y simpatizante nazi Martin Heidegger. En esta biografía palpitante y amplia, Anne C. Heller explora el origen de las contradicciones y los grandes logros de Hannah Arendt, y lo encuentra en la convicción que la filósofa albergaba de su propia condición de lo que ella llamaba "paria consciente", es decir, uno de esos seres humanos, escasos en cualquier época y lugar, que nunca dejan de confiar en sí mismos cuando la sociedad los rechaza y jamás están dispuestos a pagar cualquier precio para ser aceptados por los demás.