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Autarchies : the invention of selfishness
- Title
- Autarchies : the invention of selfishness / David Ashford.
- Author
- Ashford, David, Dr.
- Publication
- London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-3243 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 182 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than that of Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek in shaping the contemporary neo-liberal consensus. Its impact was powerful on architects of Reaganomics such as Alan Greenspan, former Director of the World Bank, and the new breed of American industrialists who developed revolutionary information technologies in Silicon Valley. But what do we really know of Rand's philosophy? Is her gospel of selfishness really nothing more than a reiteration of a quintessentially American "rugged individualism"? This book argues that Rand's philosophy can in fact be traced back to a moment, before World War I, when the work of a now-forgotten German philosopher called Max Stirner possessed an extraordinary appeal for writers and artists across Europe. The influence of Stirnerian Egoism upon that phase of intense creative innovation we now call Modernism was seminal. --
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3243
- ISBN
- 9781474297691
- 1474297692
- 9781474297707
- 1474297706
- OCLC
- 950430524
- Author
- Ashford, David, Dr., author.
- Title
- Autarchies : the invention of selfishness / David Ashford.
- Publisher
- London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3243