Ayn Rand Explained

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is unique in human history. Scorned by the established critics, she wrote brilliant popular novels that have become permanent best-sellers, and founded a comprehensive philosophical and cultural movement which, decades after her death, is shaking the foundations of the post New Deal American political order.

Ayn Rand Explained gives a comprehensive survey of Rand's wide ranging contributions: her literary techniques; her espousal and then rejection of Nietzschean philosophy; her contradictory attitude to feminism; her dismissal of religious faith; her forays into ethics, epistomology, and metaphysics; the development of her political creed; her influence on--and yet hostility to - both conservatism and libertarianism.

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