A companion to Ayn Rand / edited by Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri.

Contributor Gotthelf, Allan, 1942-2013, author.

Imprint:Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Descriptionxv, 521 pages ; 26 cm

Note:Part I: Context -- An introduction to the study of Ayn Rand / Gregory Salmieri -- The life of Ayn Rand: Writing, reading, and related life events / Shoshana Milgram -- Part II: Ethics and human nature -- The act of valuing (and the objectivity of values) / Gregory Salmieri -- The morality of life / Allan Gotthelf (completed by Gregory Salmieri) -- A being of self-made soul / Onkar Ghate -- Egoism and altruism: Selfishness and sacrifice / Gregory Salmieri -- Part III: Society -- "A human society": Rand's social philosophy / Darryl Wright -- Political theory: A radical for capitalism / Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Adam Mossoff -- Objective law / Tara Smith -- "A free mind and a free market are corollaries": Rand's philosophical perspective on capitalism / Onkar Ghate -- Part IV: The foundations of objectivism -- Objectivist metaphysics: The primacy of existence / Jason G. Rheins -- The objectivist epistemology / Gregory Salmieri -- Part V: Philosophers and their effects -- "Who sets the tone for a culture?": Ayn Rand's approach to the history of philosophy / James G. Lennox -- Ayn Rand's evolving view of Friedrich Nietzsche / Lester H. Hunt -- A philosopher on her times: Ayn Rand's political and cultural commentary / John David Lewis and Gregory Salmieri -- Part VI: Art -- The objectivist esthetics: Art and the needs of a conceptual consciousness / Harry Binswanger -- Rand's literary romanticism / Tore Boeckmann -- Coda -- Hallmarks of objectivism: The benevolent universe premise and the heroic view of man / Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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