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100 1  Merrill, Ronald E.,|eauthor. 
245 14 The ideas of Ayn Rand /|cRonald E. Merrill. 
264  1 La Salle, IL :|bOpen Court,|c[1991] 
264  4 |c©1991 
300    xii, 191 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tPreface --|tThe controversial Ayn Rand.|tThe objectivist
       movement ;|tThe 'Ayn Rand cult': fact and fancy ;|tThe 
       great schism ;|tThe miracle of the rose ;|tThe 
       resurrection of Ayn Rand ;|tThe whole rand --|tRand's life
       in print.|tRand's thinking in context ;|tThe evolution of 
       objectivism ;|tThe Randian style --|tThe Nietzschean 
       period.|tThe Nietzschean vision ;|tLiterary influences ;
       |tRand's early fiction ;|tRed pawn ;|tPenthouse legend ;
       |tWe the living ;|tThe them ;|tTrio for heroes ;|tA 
       cinematic style ;|tThe changes ;|tThe failure of Nietzsche
       --|tThe transition period.|tThe enigma of ideal ;|tThink 
       twice ;|tThe fountainhead ;|tThe break with Nietzsche ;|tA
       traditional antithesis ;|tThe impossible villain ;
       |tIntellectual snobbery ;|tA seamless patchwork ;
       |tAcquital unsatisfactory ;|tThe embryo of objectivism ;
       |tAnthem ;|t'The simplest thing in the world' --|tFull 
       integration.|tA departure in style ;|tJudaic symbolism ;
       |tPlot, plot, plot ;|tThe technique of philosophical 
       integration ;|tRand's heroes: the roots ;|tDagny Taggart 
       and the Randian woman ;|tFrancisco D'Anconia ;|tHank 
       Rearden ;|tWho is John Galt? ;|tBit-part heroes ;|tThe 
       villains ;|tThe secondary heroes ;|tThe Branden critique ;
       |tRand and repression ;|tThe Randian lovers ;|tParadox 
       solved ;|tBeyond the taggart terminal --|tThe 
       philosophical period.|tObjectivism versus academia ;
       |tMetaphysical roots ;|tAn epistemological radical ;
       |tRand's theory of concepts ;|tThe analytic-synthetic 
       dichotomy ;|tEpistemology in practice ;|tThe objectivist 
       ethics ;|tEthics and values: two lines of argument ;|tThe 
       Randian argument ;|tEnds and ends in themselves ;|tThe 
       means test ;|tRand and the Aristotelian legacy ;|tFrom is 
       to ought: is there aught, or is all for nought? ;|tWhat is
       the meaning of life, anyway? ;|tThe objections to 
       objectivist ethics ;|tSimple misrepresentations ;|tFrom 
       leaking lifeboats to the asteroid test ;|tThe galt-like 
       golfer ;|tRobert Nozick versus the Count of Monte Cristo ;
       |tHuman nature and its consequences ;|tThe ethics of the 
       future ;|tFrom theory to how-to ;|tObjectivist esthetics ;
       |tEsthetic differences and definitions --|tThe political 
       period.|tA poltiical odyssey ;|tThe radical for capitalism
       ;|tThe Goldwater decade ;|tRoots of the new conservatism ;
       |tRand's critique of conservatism ;|tThe evolution of 
       libertarianism ;|tThe essence of libertarianism ;|tRoots 
       of the political conflict ;|tObjectivism versus 
       libertarianism: the case for the plaintiff ;|tObjectivism 
       versus libertarianism: the case for the defendant ;
       |tObjectivism and the theory of government ;|tRand's view 
       of man and society ;|tThe final decline ;|tThe path less 
       travelled --|tThe future of objectivism.|tA second 
       crusade? ;|tOr the ivory tower? ;|tThe schoolroom or the 
       polling booth ;|tBack to the future ;|tWhat is to be done?
       ;|tLife support systems ;|tThe tactics of sanction ;|tThe 
       first of their return ... --|tNotes --|tBibliography --
       |tIndex. 
520    "Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is known to millions for her 
       blockbuster novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. 
       In the 1960s her 'Objectivist' ideas, featuring esthetic 
       romanticism, laissez-faire capitalism, atheism, and the 
       'virtue of selfishness', were promoted in an organized 
       movement, which split apart after Rand's falling-out with 
       her protégé Nathaniel Branden. This debacle threw Rand's 
       growing community of followers into disarray, but she 
       continues to attract readers and to exert a major, if 
       largely subterranean, influence on thinking and policy. 
       The Ideas of Ayn Rand provides, for the first time, a 
       comprehensive survey of Rand's wide-ranging contributions:
       her literary techniques ; her espousal and then rejection 
       of a Nietschean outlook; her contradictory attitude to 
       feminism ; her forays into ethics, epistemology, and 
       metaphysics; the development of her political creed; her 
       influence on -- and hostility to -- both conservatism and 
       libertarianism. Dr. Merrill's standpoint is friendly yet 
       critical. He presents a fresh and original interpretation 
       of Rand's ideas, exposing unexpected facets of the 
       Objectivist vision and arguing that Rand's thought is more
       complex, more subtle, and more profound than her enemies, 
       or even her friends, have heretofore suspected"--Back 
       cover. 
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