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Description
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
A Note on Abbreviations and References
Part I Context
1 An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand
Taking Rand Seriously
Some Challenging Features of Rand’s Ideas and Writings
Rand’s Works and Related Sources
Organization of the Companion
Notes
References
2 The Life of Ayn Rand: Writing, Reading, and Related Life Events
Leaving Russia (1905–1926)
Early Career as an American Writer (1926–1936)
The Fountainhead: The Creation of Her First Ideal Man (1936–
1943)
Atlas Shrugged: The Mind on Strike (1943–1957)
Objectivism: A Philosophy for Living on Earth (1957–1982)
Appendix: Concerning Biographical Sources
Notes
References
Part II Ethics and Human Nature
3 The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values)
Living and Valuing in The Little Street and We the Living
The Fountainhead on the Activity of Valuing
The Fountainhead on Work as the Meaning of Life
The Choice to Live and the Objectivity of Values in Atlas
Shrugged and Later Works
Acknowledgment
Notes
References
4 The Morality of Life
A New Concept of Morality
Why Man Needs a Code of Values
Man’s Life as the Standard of Value
The Value of Reason and the Virtue of Rationality
Purpose and Productiveness
Self-Esteem and Pride
The Range of Life-Sustaining Values
The Selfishness of Virtue
Independence, Integrity, Honesty, and Justice as Aspects of
Rationality
Morality and Heroism
Notes
References
5 A Being of Self-Made Soul
Free Will
The Primary Choice and an Individual’s Social Environment
Reason and Emotion
Self-Esteem
Sense of Life
Psycho-Epistemology
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
References
6 Egoism and Altruism
Situating Rand’s Egoism
Altruism: The Morality of Self-Sacrifice
Rand’s Objections to Altruism
Rand’s Reclamation of “Selfishness”
Acknowledgment
Notes
References
Part III Society
7 “A Human Society”
Man as an End in Himself
The Question of Conflicts of Interest
Individual Rights
A “Society of Traders”
Notes
References
8 Political Theory
The Nature and Need of Government
Proper Functions of Government
Capitalism and Property
Intellectual Property
Conclusion
Notes
References
9 Objective Law
Rand’s Condemnation of Non-Objective Law
The Nature and Need of Objective Law
Rand vis-à-vis Traditional Debates
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
10 “A Free Mind and a Free Market Are Corollaries”
Preliminaries: Knowledge, Values, and Man’s Life
The Free Market: Rule by Producers
Statist Economies: The Destruction of Producers
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Part IV The Foundations of Objectivism
11 Objectivist Metaphysics
The Axioms of Existence and Identity
The Epistemological Basis and Function of the Axioms
Entities
Causality
Consciousness
The Primacy of Existence
Free Will
The Distinction Between the Metaphysically Given and the
Man-Made
Objectivity as Respect for the Primacy of Existence
Notes
References
12 The Objectivist Epistemology
The Earlier Advocates of Reason: Rand and the Enlightenment
Consciousness and Sense Perception
The Process of Concept-Formation
The Objectivity of Conceptual Knowledge
Definitions and the Objectivity of Essences
Standards of Conceptualization
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Part V Philosophers and Their Effects
13 “Who Sets the Tone for a Culture?”
Ayn Rand’s Approach to the History of Philosophy
Lessons from History
Ayn Rand on Kant and Aristotle
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
14 Ayn Rand’s Evolving View of Friedrich Nietzsche
Notes
References
15 A Philosopher on Her Times
1
Early Individualist and Anti-Communist Writing and Activism
(1936–1946)
“An Age of Moral Crisis”: 1959–1961 Pieces on the State of the
Culture
“Choose Your Issues”: The Menaces of Antitrust and Censorship
“The Last Ideological Administration”: Kennedy’s Presidency
and the 1964 Election
Pragmatist Politics: The Johnson and Nixon Administrations and
the Mixed Economy
Foreign Policy: The “Cold War,” Vietnam, and the Draft
Racism, Sexism, and The Civil Rights and Women’s Liberation
Movements
Civil Disobedience and the Rise of Political Violence
The Intellectual Establishment and its Products
The Envious New Left: Environmentalism, Egalitarianism, and
the 1972 Election
The Libertarian Movement
The Religious Right and the Right to Abortion
The American Sense of Life
Notes
References
Part VI Art
16 The Objectivist Esthetics
Art as the Voice of Philosophy
Art’s Function
The Definition of Art
Two Special Cases: Architecture and Music
The Esthetic Response
Esthetic Judgment
Romanticism
Notes
References
17 Rand’s Literary Romanticism
Romanticism, Classicism, and Naturalism
Plot and the Projection of Values
Romantic Characterization
Plot and Theme
The Projection of a Self-Made Soul
Romantic Art as a Product of Imagination
The Objectivity of the Romantic Method
Acknowledgment
Notes
References
Coda
18 Hallmarks of Objectivism
Notes
References
Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Quasi-Primary Sources
I. Rand’s Works and the Objectivist Corpus
II. Posthumously Published Materials
III. Unpublished Archival Materials
IV. Works Based on Courses Authorized by Rand
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