Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia

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This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Randâ¿s conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and capitalism, and her solution for saving the modern American nation, which she believed was losing the spirit of its 18th- and 19th-century founders and frontiersmen, having been degraded morally and economically by the rampant socialism of the mid-20th-century world. Derek Offord crucially goes on to analyse how Randâ¿s writings functioned as a vehicle in which she, a Russian-Jewish writer born in St Petersburg in 1905, engaged with ideas that had long animated the Russian intelligentsia. Her conception of human nature and of a utopian community capable of satisfying its needs; her reversal of conventional valuations of self-sacrifice and selfishness; her division of humans into an extraordinary minority and the ordinary mass; her comparison of competing civilizations â¿ in all these areas, Offord argues that Rand drew on Russian debates and transposed them to a different context. Even the type of novel she writes, the novel of ideas, is informed by the polemical methods and habits of the Russian intelligentsia. The book concludes that her search for a brave new world continues to have topicality in the 21st century, with its populist critiques of liberal democracies and acrimonious debates about countriesâ¿ moral, social, and economic priorities and their identities, inequalities, and social tensions.

Über den Autor

Derek Offord is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol, UK. His publications include Journeys to a Graveyard: Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing (2006), Nineteenth-Century Russia: Opposition to Autocracy (1999), and(with W. Leatherbarrow) A Documentary History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism (1987).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Ayn Rand and her Russian Background
2. Rand and the Russian Intellectual Tradition
3. Rand and Russian Literary Models
4. Ethical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Questions
5. Politics and Economics
6. Geopolitics
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	144
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781350283947
ISBN-10:	1350283940
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Offord, Derek
Redaktion:	Avrutin, Eugene M. Norris, Stephen M.
Besonderheit:	Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	195 x 126 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Derek Offord
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.05.2022
Gewicht:	0,168 kg

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