Pub Date : 2017-12-02DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.2.0285
E. Younkins
ABSTRACT:The purpose of this article is to discuss the several ways in which Atlas Shrugged is related to social change. It explains both how characters such as entrepreneurs and strikers introduce change in the novel as well as how Atlas Shrugged itself can be employed as a tool for bringing about change in the real world. The potential effects of the novel on readers are examined, as are the efforts of social movements that have embraced and incorporated the ideas found therein into their own philosophy.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-02DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.2.0306
Roger E. Bissell
ABSTRACT:The author assures readers that Chris Matthew Sciabarra has met all Aristotelian (if not Objectivist) requirements in full, providing not one but two definitions of "dialectics," which, as the art of context-keeping, is indeed an essential part of Ayn Rand's philosophical method. He shows how Sciabarra's definitional process compares quite favorably in terms of timeliness, transparency, and benevolence to that of Rand and other Objectivists, and notes that Sciabarra's overriding concern, notwithstanding his obvious great respect for Rand's substantive philosophical achievements, has been to identify and clarify the methods she and other thinkers have used to profound benefit.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-02DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.2.0321
C. Sciabarra
ABSTRACT:Sciabarra responds to critics of the second edition of his book, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical: Wendy McElroy, who reviewed the book for The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (July 2015), and Shoshana Milgram and Gregory Salmieri, whose most recent criticisms appear in A Companion to Ayn Rand (2016). Sciabarra defends both his historical and methodological theses, situating the book within a trilogy of works that define and defend "dialectical libertarianism," which eschews utopian thinking and embraces a fully radical mode of inquiry. Sciabarra argues that dialectics—the art of context-keeping—figures prominently throughout Rand's literary and philosophical corpus.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.2.0153
Kyle Barrowman
ABSTRACT:This article argues that, propaedeutic to the construction of an Objectivist aesthetics, scholars must refute the irrational/immoral philosophical premises that have been destroying the philosophy of art. Due to the troubling combination of its contemporaneity, extremism, and considerable influence, poststructuralism, which, since the 1960s, has served as the default philosophical foundation for philosophers of art, is the target of this article. This article contends that the road to an Objectivist aesthetics must first be cleared of philosophical debris like poststructuralism before we can hope to go back to the world of art.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.1.0041
Merlin Jetton
The beneficiary statement refers to a passage in the Introduction of The Virtue of Selfishness. It concerns who the beneficiary of an action should be and any breach between actor and beneficiary. This article critiques said passage and shows how rational self-interest extends beyond the actor’s self-interest more narrowly conceived. It critiques the Trader Principle and shows further how trade extends rational self-interest beyond the actor’s self-interest more narrowly conceived. It shows how the virtue of independence does not imply that all dependence is a vice. Dependence in collaborative action even extends to the virtue of productiveness.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.1.0109
T. Camplin
The author reviews After the Avant-Gardes: Reflections on the Future of the Fine Arts, edited by Elizabeth Millán, and agrees with many of its contributors that avant-garde art and totalitarianism are based on the same worldview. The author views this collection as a brilliant critique of the avant-garde, which might provide a way to transcend its deeply dehumanizing effects.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.1.0116
Merlin Jetton
The author agrees with much of Roger E. Bissell’s critique of the Objectivist idea of volition (in his July 2015 essay, “Where There’s a Will, There’s a ‘Why’: A Critique of the Objectivist Theory of Volition”), especially as expressed by Leonard Peikoff. On the other hand, the author believes Bissell’s reform of the Objectivist conception is at best minimal and it lacks attention to thinking as an integral part of volition.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.1.0001
Aaron Weinacht
This article argues that the egoism of nihilists Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Dmitrii Pisarev was a significant influence on the thought of Ayn Rand. Chernyshevskii and Pisarev are usually cast as influences on Russian socialists. Rand was an unapologetic proponent of capitalism. But these differences in economic philosophy should be seen as secondary to the egoism that was primary for all three thinkers. The claim that Chernyshevskii and Pisarev may have influenced Rand is one that provides a new way to think about the historical significance of nihilism.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.1.0068
R. Campbell
In a 2014 article, the author noted that he had made contact with the Ayn Rand Archives regarding recordings and transcripts of Ayn Rand’s question and answer sessions. Here he tells the full story, which began well before that article was published, and ended just recently. The Ayn Rand Archives has finally achieved truth in labeling.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.17.1.0147
Marsha Familaro Enright
In this article, the author responds to “Remembering the ‘Self’ in ‘Self-ish-ness,’” Robert White’s critique of her own article, “The Problem with Selfishness,” which appeared in the July 2014 issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.
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