Titlebook: Questioning Ayn Rand; Subjectivity, Politi Neil Cocks Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to

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Psychologisation, What It Is and What It Is Not: Objectivism, Psychology, and Silicon Valleyernation by right-wing commentators as they commonly understand it as an ‘overspill of the psychological in discourse to non-psychological areas’. Psychology is regarded in such commentary as repressive and irrelevant, and this leads to the suggestion that we should go back to a time before psycholo

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Narrated Rand: HUAC, Engraved Invitations and the Real of Sexual Differenceroes of her novel ., the infamous rape scene in that novel, and the celebrated analysis of this by Slavoj Žižek. The aim is to suggest that the purity of Rand’s narratives is always compromised, not least through their literary status: Rand is constantly disavowing the narrative frame that is necess

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At Home with Marx and Rand: Returning Man in Pre-historye of the ways this connection can and has been theorised. It also builds on the fact that Spiderman’s creator, Steve Ditko, was a Randian, and that the comics are also concerned with constructions of pre-history. The chapter plays with Rand’s claims about the ‘proper’ form of political protest in he

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: Rand, Pedagogy, and ‘the Cure’nd, there is a clear opposition between what she sees as the dangerous forces of liberalisation at large in America, and the reason, rationality and logic that defines Objectivist philosophy. The former holds sway in ‘progressive nurseries’ that are defined as ‘the disease’ while, ironically, the ‘t

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Topographies of Liberal Thought: Rand and Arendt and Racehey relate to the 1957 ‘Little Rock incident’. Both authors came out against moves to promote integration in classrooms, and through contrasting what might seem their aligned positions, the chapter draws out the wider stakes involved a comparative reading of their work. Central to this project, and

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‘“Oh, that’s Francisco’s private joke” […]’: ,, the Gold Standard, and Utopia. For Objectivists, gold has an intrinsic value, and an economy based on the precious metal is thus taken to be rooted in reality and resistant to inflation. Rand makes an analogy between this understanding of gold and ‘competence’ within everyday life: accurately comprehending the world and having

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2946-5397 t of writers not usually read in the context of Objectivism,.Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts. 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

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