Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0417
E. Younkins
abstract:Eamonn Butler's Ayn Rand: An Introduction is a short, well-organized, and easy-to-read guide to Ayn Rand's key ideas. This primer focuses on the essentials, avoids academic details, and is structured around the major elements of her philosophy of Objectivism. Butler's book is a fine, brief introduction to Rand's thought.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0421
T. Camplin
abstract:Atlas Rising is an anonymous pamphlet put out by The Atlas Rising Institute, which identifies itself as "a new educational organization dedicated to the study of creative human intelligence" (copyright page). The purpose of this pamphlet is to show the degree of influence Ayn Rand has had on the techno-entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and to serve as an apologetics for her worldview. It serves its purpose well.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0095
D. Gordon
ABSTRACT:In their book, Equal Is Unfair, Watkins and Brook argue that equality of income and wealth is not needed in order to engage in the creative work required for human flourishing. One can live a successful life even though others have more resources and opportunities. It is contended here that this argument is convincing, but contrary to Watkins and Brook, it does not suffice to rule out all justifications for redistribution.
{"title":"Misguided Arguments","authors":"D. Gordon","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In their book, Equal Is Unfair, Watkins and Brook argue that equality of income and wealth is not needed in order to engage in the creative work required for human flourishing. One can live a successful life even though others have more resources and opportunities. It is contended here that this argument is convincing, but contrary to Watkins and Brook, it does not suffice to rule out all justifications for redistribution.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49035173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0080
Roger Donway
ABSTRACT:Sixteen essays on Ayn Rand's contribution to economic and business thought question, explore, and extend what makes her writings such a prominent inspiration to businessmen and free-market economists. Most of the contributors agree it is principally her use of a Romanticist literary style, which restored the nineteenth century's idealization of inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Some also believe that she brought philosophic depth to the analysis of business by adding wealth creation to the traditional Aristotelian morality of self-realization. A few credit her invocation of a non-exploitative egoism to oust the image of businessmen as servants of shareholders and customers.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0116
Neil Parille
ABSTRACT:A New Textbook of Americanism includes Ayn Rand's previously uncompleted question-and-answer Textbook of Americanism, answers to questions she left unanswered written by contemporary Objectivist thinkers, excerpts from Rand's previously unpublished "Workshop on Ethics and Politics," and new and previously published essays by Objectivist writers. The book's most important section is the excerpt from her Workshop in which Rand discusses topics that were seldom or never addressed in her published works.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0146
A. Skoble
ABSTRACT:The author reviews two adaptations of Anthem as a graphic novel and a third book, The Age of Selfishness, that combines a biography of Rand with an account of the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century and her putative responsibility for it. The graphic novels are both enjoyable versions of Rand's thought-provoking science-fiction novella, to different degrees; the nonfiction book is filled with distortions, polemic, and caricature.
{"title":"Illustrated Rand: Three Recent Graphic Novels","authors":"A. Skoble","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author reviews two adaptations of Anthem as a graphic novel and a third book, The Age of Selfishness, that combines a biography of Rand with an account of the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century and her putative responsibility for it. The graphic novels are both enjoyable versions of Rand's thought-provoking science-fiction novella, to different degrees; the nonfiction book is filled with distortions, polemic, and caricature.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46659907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0105
T. Camplin
ABSTRACT:If we humans are truly facing a posthuman future, the shape of that future will in no small part be a consequence of the writings of Ayn Rand. This is the fundamental claim of Ben Murnane in Ayn Rand and the Posthuman—a claim that he supports while discussing the benefits and problems of such a likely Randian future. From seasteading to technologically enhanced humans, the future, it seems, belongs to Ayn Rand and the pioneers of technology she has most influenced.
{"title":"Ayn Rand and Posthumanism","authors":"T. Camplin","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:If we humans are truly facing a posthuman future, the shape of that future will in no small part be a consequence of the writings of Ayn Rand. This is the fundamental claim of Ben Murnane in Ayn Rand and the Posthuman—a claim that he supports while discussing the benefits and problems of such a likely Randian future. From seasteading to technologically enhanced humans, the future, it seems, belongs to Ayn Rand and the pioneers of technology she has most influenced.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43569524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0074
Peter J. Boettke
ABSTRACT:This book review of How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner finds that the author's indictment of Rand and the alleged effects that her ideas had on generating the 2008 financial crisis exhibits no knowledge of the relevant scientific or historical literature on economic policy.
{"title":"How Bad Scholarship Destroys Literary and Economic Analysis","authors":"Peter J. Boettke","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This book review of How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner finds that the author's indictment of Rand and the alleged effects that her ideas had on generating the 2008 financial crisis exhibits no knowledge of the relevant scientific or historical literature on economic policy.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46183850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0101
Mimi Reisel Gladstein
ABSTRACT:In Selfish Women, Lisa Downing deals with two women who had to battle the sexist stereotypes of their times: Ayn Rand and Margaret Thatcher. Her focus on Rand and Margaret Thatcher as women of "self-fulness" challenges conventional feminist conceptions that leave little room for the power of individuality. This book makes a significant contribution to such fields as women's studies, sociology, and political science.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0137
Roger E. Bissell
ABSTRACT:The author compares two very different guides to Atlas Shrugged. The first, by Curry and Trifiletti, is a more straightforward though thoughtful examination, in sequence, of the novel's thirty chapters, while the second, by Tracinski, is a collection of mostly freestanding, insightful, and inspirational essays. Special focus is given to the treatment in each book of the length and literary merit of Galt's speech.
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