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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Introduction: Uncanny Rand

Author : Neil Cocks

Published in: Questioning Ayn Rand

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The opening chapter of Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity‚ Political Economy‚ and the Arts offers a brief introduction to Ayn Rand, her philosophy of Objectivism, published work, and its critical reception. It argues for the urgency of a multidisciplinary and detailed academic critique of Randian Objectivism, and further promotes an approach to this work that is not simply dismissive. Randian texts, it is suggested, should be engaged in all their disturbing familiarity as well as their threatening otherness. The nine central chapters are introduced, and there is a demonstration of how their various concerns can be understood to turn on notions of ‘purity’ and ‘revelation’.

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Metadata
Title
Introduction: Uncanny Rand
Author
Neil Cocks
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Questioning Ayn Rand

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-53072-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-53073-0

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53073-0_1