{"product_id":"9783030530723","title":"Questioning Ayn Rand : Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuestioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand's works and her wider Objectivist philosophy. While Rand's texts are often dismissed out of hand by those hostile to the ideology promoted within them, these essays argue instead that they need to be taken seriously and analysed in detail. Rand's influential worldview does not tolerate uncertainty, relying as it does upon a notion of truth untroubled by doubt. In contrast, the contributors to this volume argue that any progressive response to Rand should resist the dubious comforts of a position of ethical or aesthetic purity, even as they challenge the reductive individualistic ideology promoted within her writing. Drawing on a range of sources and approaches from Psychoanalysis to The Gold Standard and from Hannah Arendt to Spiderman, these essays consider Rand's works in the context of wider political, economic, and philosophical debates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n Chapter 1: Introduction: uncanny Rand, \u003ci\u003eNeil Cocks\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 2: Reading Ayn Rand psychoanalytically: ethics, libertarian and otherwise, \u003ci\u003eIan Parker\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 3: Psychologization, what it is and what it is not: Objectivism, psychology, and Silicon Valley, \u003ci\u003eJan de Vos\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 4: Narrated Rand: HUAC, engraved invitations, and the real of sexual difference, \u003ci\u003eNeil Cocks\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 5: The American mythology of individualism: Emerson, Ayn Rand, and the Romantic child, \u003ci\u003eKristina West\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 6: Selfish cinema: sex, heroism, and control in adaptations of Ayn Rand for the screen, \u003ci\u003eLisa Downing\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 7: At home with Marx and Rand: returning man in prehistory, \u003ci\u003eBonnie McGill\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 8: The New Left: Rand, pedagogy, and 'the cure', \u003ci\u003eJerome Cox- Strong\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 9: Topographies of Liberal Thought: Rand and Arendt and Race, \u003ci\u003eStephen Thomson\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 10: '\"Oh, that's Francisco's private joke\" [...]': Atlas Shrugged, the gold standard, and utopia, \u003ci\u003eNeil Cocks\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNeil Cocks\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Literary Perspective in the Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHigher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave 2017) and \u003ci\u003eThe Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave 2014).","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48824854282475,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":201.41,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9783030530723","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}