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The Ayn Rand cult / Jeff Walker.
- Title
- The Ayn Rand cult / Jeff Walker.
- Author
- Walker, Jeff, 1952-
- Publication
- Chicago : Open Court, c1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3535.A547 Z97 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 396 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The author explains the origin of the ideas of Ayn Rand and exposes "Objectivism as a classic cult, unusual because of its overt emphasis on self-interest, rationality, and atheism, but typical of cults in its guru-worship, thought control, trial and excommuciation of deviants, and hostility to existing society."--Cover.
- Subject
- Rand, Ayn > Appreciation > United States
- 1900-1999
- Fiction > Appreciation > History > United States > 20th century
- Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Authors and readers > United States > History > 20th century
- Philosophy in literature
- Objectivism (Philosophy)
- United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-382) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chronology of the objectivist movement -- Introduction : the most peculiar cult on Earth -- The cult while the guru lived -- Entrails : the anatomy of the cult -- The cult after the guru's death -- Sex, art, and psychotherapy -- Nathaniel Branden : the godfather of self-esteem -- Leonard Peikoff : from serf to pontiff -- Alan Greenspan : the undertaker takes over -- The mind of the guru -- The dark side of the guru's soul -- The roots of objectivism -- The disowned ancestry of Atlas shrugged -- Ayn Rand's legacy.
- ISBN
- 0812693906 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98045955^
- OCLC
- 39914039
- SCSB-10741100
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library