Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xii
A Note on Abbreviations and References xiv
Part I Context 1
1 An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand 3 Gregory Salmieri
2 The Life of Ayn Rand: Writing, Reading, and Related Life Events 22 Shoshana Milgram
Part II Ethics and Human Nature 47
3 The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values) 49 Gregory Salmieri
4 The Morality of Life 73 Allan Gotthelf (completed by Gregory Salmieri)
5 A Being of Self-Made Soul 105 Onkar Ghate
6 Egoism and Altruism: Selfishness and Sacrifice 130 Gregory Salmieri
Part III Society 157
7 “A Human Society”: Rand’s Social Philosophy 159 Darryl Wright
8 Political Theory: A Radical for Capitalism 187 Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Adam Mossoff
9 Objective Law 209 Tara Smith
10 “A Free Mind and a Free Market are Corollaries”: Rand’s Philosophical Perspective on Capitalism 222 Onkar Ghate
Part IV The Foundations of Objectivism 243
11 Objectivist Metaphysics: The Primacy of Existence 245 Jason G. Rheins
12 The Objectivist Epistemology 272 Gregory Salmieri
Part V Philosophers and Their Effects 319
13 “Who Sets the Tone for a Culture?”: Ayn Rand’s Approach to the History of Philosophy 321 James G. Lennox
14 Ayn Rand’s Evolving View of Friedrich Nietzsche 34 Lester H. Hunt
15 A Philosopher on Her Times: Ayn Rand’s Political and Cultural Commentary 351 John David Lewis and Gregory Salmieri
Part VI Art 403
16 The Objectivist Esthetics: Art and the Needs of a Conceptual Consciousness 405 Harry Binswanger
17 Rand’s Literary Romanticism 426 Tore Boeckmann
Coda 451
18 Hallmarks of Objectivism: The Benevolent Universe Premise and the Heroic View of Man 453 Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri
Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Quasi-Primary Sources 463
Index 471