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1 online resource. |
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Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
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Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies.
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Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 The North Pole of the Ego: The Politics of Parisian Dada; 2 Philosophic Algebra: Dora Marsden's Lingual Psychology; 3 The Siberia of the Mind: Wyndham Lewis: The Modernist as Egoist; 4 A New Concept of Egoism: The Late-Modernism of Ayn Rand; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index. |
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."-- Back cover |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
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Philosophy -- Miscellanea.
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Philosophy. |
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Social & political philosophy. |
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Literature & literary studies. |
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Psychology. |
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Philosophy: aesthetics. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Ashford, David, Dr. Autarchies. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781474297691 (DLC) 2017288448 (OCoLC)950430524 |
ISBN |
9781474297684 (electronic book) |
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1474297684 (electronic book) |
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9781474297721 (online) |
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1474297722 |
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9781474297707 (paperback) |
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1474297706 |
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9781474297714 (electronic book) |
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1474297714 |
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1474297692 |
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9781474297691 |
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