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Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living
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2012
Summary
Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. But Rand's first novel, We the Living, a lesser-known but no less important book, offers an early form of the author's nascent philosophy—the philosophy Rand later called Objectivism.
In the second edition, Robert Mayhew once again brings together pre-eminent scholars of Rand's writing. The edition includes three new chapters, as well as an epilogue by renowned Rand-scholar Leonard Peikoff. In part a history of We the Living, from its earliest drafts to the Italian film later based upon it, Mayhew's collection goes on to explore the enduring significance of Rand's first novel as a work both of philosophy and of literature. For Ayn Rand scholars and fans alike, this enhanced second edition is a compelling examination of a novel that set the tone for some of the most influential philosophical literature to follow.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4969-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4971-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
420
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Preface to the Second Edition No access
Acknowledgments No access
Bibliographical Note No access
I: The History of We the Living No access
1 From Airtight to We the Living No access
2 Parallel Lives No access
3 We the Living and the Rosenbaum Family Letters No access
4 The Education of Kira Argounova and Leo Kovalensky No access
5 Russian Revolutionary Ideology and We the Living No access
6 The Music of We the Living No access
7 Publishing We the Living No access
8 Reviews of We the Living No access
9 Adapting We the Living No access
10 We the Living: ’36 & ’59 No access
11 We the Living and Victor Hugo No access
12 Red Pawn No access
13 The Integration of Plot and Theme in We the Living No access
14 The Sacred in We the Living No access
15 The Plight of Leo Kovalensky No access
16 Kira’s Family No access
17 Kira Argounova Laughed No access
18 Forbidding Life to Those Still Living No access
19 The Death Premise in We the Living and Atlas Shrugged No access
