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Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical

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Summary

Full Title: Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical Author(s): Chris Matthew Sciabarra Year Published: 1995 Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press Publication Type: Academic ISBN: 0-271-01440-7 (hardcover), 0-271-01441-5 (paperback) Description: Sciabarra claims to "explore Objectivism on three distinct levels: (1) its intellectual roots, (2) its formal structure, and (3) its radical social implications."

Contents

• Acknowledgements

• Introduction
  • Rand Scholarship: Problems and Perspectives
  • The Study in Brief
  • Dialectics and Dualism

Part One: The Process of Becoming

1. Synthesis in Russian Culture
   • The Character of Russian Philosophy
   • The Slavophiles
   • The Impact of Vladimir Solovyov
   • The Silver Age
   • The Influence of Nietzsche in Russia
   • Neo-Idealism and the Russian Religious Renaissance
   • Russian Marxism
2. Lossky, the Teacher
   • An Extraordinary Life
   • Lossky's Philosophy: An Eclectic Synthesis
   • Lossky and Aristotle
   • Lossky's Epistemology
   • The World as an Organic Whole
3. Educating Alissa
   • The Early Years
   • The Stoiunin Gymnasium
   • The Crimean Gymnasium
   • A Revolution in Education
   • Majoring in History
   • Minoring in Philosophy
   • Lossky and Rand
   • A Reign of Terror
   • Coming to America
4. The Maturation of Ayn Rand
   • Novelist and Philosopher
   • Digesting the Past
   • We the Living
   • A "Nietzschean" Phase?
   • The Fountainhead
   • Early Nonfiction
   • Atlas Shrugged
   • The Public Philosopher

Part Two: The Revolt against Dualism

5. Being
   • The Rejection of Cosmology
   • Axiomatic Concepts
   • Ontology and Logic
   • The Entity as a Cluster of Qualities
   • The Metaphysical versus the Man-Made
   • Rand versus Kant
6. Knowing
   • Rejecting Epistemological Dualism
   • Perception
   • Volition and Focus
   • Reason
   • Abstraction and Conception
   • Internal Relations Revisited
7. Reason and Emotion
   • The Nature of Emotions
   • Branden's Critique
   • The Conscious and the Subconscious
   • Psychological Integration
8. Art, Philosophy, and Efficacy
   • The Function of Art
   • The Function of Philosophy
   • The Will to Efficacy
   • Rationalism and Empiricism
   • Rand and Hayek
9. Ethics and Human Survival
   • Beyond Fact and Value
   • Life and Value
   • Rationality and Virtue
   • Productive Work
   • The Virtue of Selfishness
   • Love and Sex
   • Eudaemonia
   • Morality and Moralizing
10. A Libertarian Politics
    • The Individual and Society
    • Force
    • Individual Rights
    • Anarchy and Government
    • Capitalism

Part Three: The Radical Rand

11. Relations of Power
    • Master and Slave
    • A Linguistic Turn
    • The Antirational Culture
12. The Predatory State
    • The Mixed Economy
    • Economic Dislocation
    • Social Fragmentation
    • Racism
    • Conservatism versus Liberalism
13. History and Resolution
    • Attila versus the Witch Doctor
    • The Primacy of Philosophy
    • "What Can One Do?"
    • The Objectivist Society
    • God-Builder?
    • The Communitarian Impulse

• Epilogue
• Notes
• References
• Index

Related Links

• Excerpt discussing the conditions of her life at a Soviet university
• Book Homepage
• Home page of Chris Matthew Sciabarra
• Wikipedia article about Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Reviews, Criticism and Analysis

The following perspectives on this book are available online:

• By Roger E. Bissell for Reason Papers
• By David M. Brown for The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
• By Bryan Caplan for Philosophical Notes
• By Nicholas Dykes for Free Life
• By Lester H. Hunt for Liberty
• By James G. Lennox for the IOS Journal
• By James G. Lennox for Reason
• By Gary McGath
• By Ron Merrill with follow-up email correspondence. There is also a revised response by Daniel Ust available online.
• By Jack Schwartzman for Fragments

Note: The homepage for this book includes texts and/or summaries for a number of reviews, along with the author's responses to some of them.

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