{"title":"Befriending the Darkness: L.M. Montgomery’s Lived Theodicy in Anne’s House of Dreams","authors":"Brenton D.G. Dickieson","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"In Anne’s House of Dreams, which Elizabeth Epperly calls Montgomery’s most philosophical novel, Montgomery delves into painful topics of loss, suicide, bad marriages, ill-timed love, poverty, and the beautiful-terrible consequences of duty. The result is a complex and nuanced consideration of faithful living in the face of unexplainable evil that functions as a lived theodicy in story form. “I reckon when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy.” —L.M. Montgomery, Captain Jim in Anne’s House of Dreams","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/print/pdf/node/285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147895289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wordsworth’s Light and Shelley’s Shadow: Revelation in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne and Emily Series","authors":"Alicia Pollard","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In the Anne and Emily series, Anne and Emily are Romantic dreamers who pursue revelation (revealed knowledge about the spiritual world). Both protagonists are Wordsworthian dreamers who experience the light of natural revelation, but Emily also experiences a Shelleyan darkness: the allure of mystery and the despair of anti-revelation.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/print/pdf/node/282","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Journey to Fulfillment","authors":"S. Marvin","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0114","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Tao of Roark: Variations on a Theme from Ayn Rand, by Peter Saint-Andre, is a guide to personal development. He begins with the theme of youthful discovery in The Fountainhead and its protagonist, Howard Roark, progressing through forty-eight \"variations,\" familiar to close readers of Rand's novel: principles, virtues, and evaluations, which begin with reason and the integration of emotions. This is the intellectual and emotional journey of the author, shared, to inspire the reader.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"114 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49099519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selfish versus Selfish","authors":"Merlin Jetton","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0042","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Ayn Rand's controversial use of \"selfish\" and \"selfishness\" has arguably done as much or more to supply \"grist\" to her critics and drive people away from her philosophy than to persuade people to adopt it. This article is about her meaning of \"selfish\" and the common, popular meaning. Succinctly, the former is a high-level abstraction, philosophical, and mainly a way of thinking, whereas the latter is a low-level abstraction, not philosophical, and mainly a way of acting. They also have different contrast terms.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"42 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46905920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Integrations as Functional Wholes","authors":"Abhijeet Melkani","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0056","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:It is argued that a mental integration is formed only if the result is a functional whole. This idea is then used to clarify the definition of a concept and discuss problems in which an instance may belong to different conceptual classes depending on the context. The same idea is also applied to the rules for dealing with an entity when it is formed out of sub-entities. Specific examples of how such rules are frequently violated in literature as well as colloquially are discussed.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"56 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48057788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-reading Rand through a Russian Lens","authors":"M. Kizilov","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article reviews a new book by a Russian scholar, Anastasiya Grigorovskaya, which places Ayn Rand's fiction into its Russian context. Grigorovskaya comes to the conclusion that Ayn Rand's imagery and fiction was heavily influenced by Russian philosophy and literature. Paradoxical it may seem, but written in America in the English language, her novels and plays contain hidden references to ideas and tendencies that preoccupied the minds of many Russian thinkers and writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"105 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42554558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Existence, We","authors":"S. Boydstun","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.21.1.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.21.1.0065","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The new metaphysics presented in this article is more indebted to the metaphysics of Ayn Rand than to any other. The author's system is a transfiguration of hers at the deepest level. The differences and commonalities with Rand's fundamentals are explicated and argued. Her fundamentals and the author's are set in their relations to others, ancient to modern.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"104 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42130124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Multilayered Work","authors":"M. Gladstein","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0110","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this posthumously published novel, Layers, Nathaniel Branden exhibits his talent as not only a philosopher and psychotherapist, but also a writer of fiction. The plot primarily involves the story of Nicholas Holland, a published author and leading therapist, as he interacts with Andrew Berringer, to whom he has come for therapy.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"110 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44266905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hegemonic Change and the Role of the Intellectual in Atlas Shrugged: A Gramscian Study","authors":"Syed Haroon Shah","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.21.1.0016","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article focuses on the hegemonic shift portrayed by Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged. The book focuses on the conflict between producers and those who exploit them. The protagonist, John Galt, leads a strike of the producers, which undermines the society's looters and puts an end to the hegemonic control of the left. Neoliberalism—used here as a synonym for contemporary libertarian thought—rescues the world from the havoc wreaked by statism. This shift is studied in the light of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony, focusing on the role of intellectuals.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"16 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42778824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Roger E. Bissell","authors":"Lyons","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.21.1.0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.21.1.0118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84284876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}