{"product_id":"9780812697988","title":"Ayn Rand Explained","description":"\u003cp\u003eAyn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAyn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late Ronald E. Merrill, a graduate of MIT and the University of Oregon, was a scientist entrepreneur who ran his own business in the Los Angeles area. Ho wrote books or venture capital and sundry articles on science, business, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Court Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020645253360,"sku":"9780812697988","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812697988_p0.jpg?v=1763742350","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812697988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}