{"title":"Illustrated Rand: Three Recent Graphic Novels","authors":"A. Skoble","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author reviews two adaptations of Anthem as a graphic novel and a third book, The Age of Selfishness, that combines a biography of Rand with an account of the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century and her putative responsibility for it. The graphic novels are both enjoyable versions of Rand's thought-provoking science-fiction novella, to different degrees; the nonfiction book is filled with distortions, polemic, and caricature.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"146 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46659907","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":"Textbook of Americanism 2.0","authors":"Neil Parille","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0116","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:A New Textbook of Americanism includes Ayn Rand's previously uncompleted question-and-answer Textbook of Americanism, answers to questions she left unanswered written by contemporary Objectivist thinkers, excerpts from Rand's previously unpublished \"Workshop on Ethics and Politics,\" and new and previously published essays by Objectivist writers. The book's most important section is the excerpt from her Workshop in which Rand discusses topics that were seldom or never addressed in her published works.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"116 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45811899","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":"Ayn Rand and Posthumanism","authors":"T. Camplin","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:If we humans are truly facing a posthuman future, the shape of that future will in no small part be a consequence of the writings of Ayn Rand. This is the fundamental claim of Ben Murnane in Ayn Rand and the Posthuman—a claim that he supports while discussing the benefits and problems of such a likely Randian future. From seasteading to technologically enhanced humans, the future, it seems, belongs to Ayn Rand and the pioneers of technology she has most influenced.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"105 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43569524","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":"How Bad Scholarship Destroys Literary and Economic Analysis","authors":"Peter J. Boettke","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This book review of How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner finds that the author's indictment of Rand and the alleged effects that her ideas had on generating the 2008 financial crisis exhibits no knowledge of the relevant scientific or historical literature on economic policy.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"74 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46183850","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":"Ayn Rand: Selfish Woman","authors":"Mimi Reisel Gladstein","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0101","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Selfish Women, Lisa Downing deals with two women who had to battle the sexist stereotypes of their times: Ayn Rand and Margaret Thatcher. Her focus on Rand and Margaret Thatcher as women of \"self-fulness\" challenges conventional feminist conceptions that leave little room for the power of individuality. This book makes a significant contribution to such fields as women's studies, sociology, and political science.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"101 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44987396","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":"Who John Galt Is","authors":"Roger E. Bissell","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0137","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author compares two very different guides to Atlas Shrugged. The first, by Curry and Trifiletti, is a more straightforward though thoughtful examination, in sequence, of the novel's thirty chapters, while the second, by Tracinski, is a collection of mostly freestanding, insightful, and inspirational essays. Special focus is given to the treatment in each book of the length and literary merit of Galt's speech.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"137 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41624820","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":"File Folder Follies","authors":"F. Seddon","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0151","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The reviewer looks at Roger E. Bissell's latest work, What's in Your File Folder? Essays on the Nature and Logic of Propositions. He considers a range of topics including propositions, syllogisms, the meaning of existence, the nature of entities and characteristics, axioms, causality, and logic, among others.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"151 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49073035","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":"The Psycho-Epistemology of Freedom","authors":"Steven H. Shmurak","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0121","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Independent Judgment and Introspection: Fundamental Requirements of the Free Society, Jerry Kirkpatrick maintains that a free society can exist only when a sufficient number of people have healthy psycho-epistemologies. He identifies fundamental aspects in our culture that work against this end. Building on the work of Objectivist psychologist Edith Packer, he presents a process for improving one's psycho-epistemology. Kirkpatrick also traces the history of child-rearing practices and relates the process of change to the work of many other psychologists including Horney, Freud, Ellis, and Rogers.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"121 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42860804","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":"What Ayn Never Told Us","authors":"Dennis C. Hardin","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Understanding Objectivism was Leonard Peikoff's first major teaching endeavor following Ayn Rand's death in 1982. Like Nathaniel Branden's 1971 book The Disowned Self—written after his break with Rand—the lectures addressed complaints reported by students of the philosophy, subject matter Rand may not have approved. Peikoff faults the common mistake of looking at Objectivism through the lens of traditional philosophy. He clarifies the distinct nature of objective methodology and shows how traditional philosophy is hostage to the pernicious mind-body dichotomy. Despite Peikoff's gracious display of empathy, the promise of a more benign nascent Objectivist vanguard was short-lived.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"4 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47770592","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":"Posthumous Publications","authors":"Stephen Cox","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0125","url":null,"abstract":"<p>ABSTRACT:</p><p>Posthumous publication of Ayn Rand's novella <i>Ideal</i> and her play <i>The Unconquered</i> provides an opportunity to assess her early work. <i>The Unconquered</i> is an unfortunate theatrical dramatization of her novel <i>We the Living. Ideal</i>, which was written first as a novella and then as a play, is the inadequate presentation of a provocative idea. Editorial packaging of <i>The Unconquered</i> is extensive and informative; of <i>Ideal</i>, slight and confused. Especially regrettable is the theory of genres presented in place of editorial commentary on <i>Ideal</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"125 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42852332","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}
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