Description
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the intellectual roots and philosophy of Ayn Rand. Second edition adds a new preface and an analysis of transcripts documenting Rand's education at Petrograd State University.
Trade Review“Brilliant and pathbreaking. . . . Much more could be written in praise and in critique of Russian Radical because it is one of those rare books from which a reader raises her head every few pages and wonders, “Do I agree?” These are the books in life that make a wonderful intellectual difference because they inspire thought on a fundamental level.”
—Wendy McElroy The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Table of ContentsContents
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: THE PROCESS OF BECOMING
1 Synthesis in Russian Culture
2 Lossky, the Teacher
3 Educating Alissa
4 The Maturation of Ayn Rand
PART TWO: THE REVOLT AGAINST DUALISM
5 Being
6 Knowing
7 Reason and Emotion
8 Art, Philosophy, and Efficacy
9 Ethics and Human Survival
10 A Libertarian Politics
PART THREE: THE RADICAL RAND
11 Relations of Power
12 The Predatory State
13 History and Resolution
Epilogue
Appendix I: The Rand Transcript (1999)
Appendix II: The Rand Transcript, Revisited (2005)
Appendix III: A Challenge to Russian Radical—and Ayn Rand (2013)
Notes
References
Index
