Mimi R. Gladstein

Ayn Rand (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was one of the most influential 20th century advocates of free market capitalism. Her work inspired Objectivism, a philosophical movement and former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cited Rand as a formative intellectual influence. In this outstanding volume, Mimi Gladstein details Rand's belief in the moral supremacy of individualism over collectivism, highlighting her contribution to libertarian thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441145154
• Artikelnr.: 38300036

Autorenporträt

Mimi Gladstein is Chair of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Literature at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of many books including Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Companion and The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck.

MIMI REISEL GLADSTEIN is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso. In addition to The Ayn Rand Companion (1984), she is the author of The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck (1986), and coeditor of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (1999). She has won international awards for her teaching and scholarship on John Steinbeck.