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It is what it is: Ayn Rand's opinions on various matters from politics to literature, eloquently spoken and organized by categories.
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Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A
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After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed not only added an eloquent new dimension to Ayn Rand's ideas and beliefs, but a fresh and spontaneous insight into Ayn Rand herself. Never before available in print, this publishing event is a collection of those enlightening Q & As.
This is Ayn Rand on: ethics, Ernest Hemingway, modern art, Vietnam, Libertarians, Jane Fonda, religious conservatives, Hollywood Communists, atheism, Don Quixote, abortion, gun control, love and marriage, Ronald Reagan, pollution, the Middle East, racism and feminism, crime and punishment, capitalism, prostitution, homosexuality, reason and rationality, literature, drug use, freedom of the press, Richard Nixon, New Left militants, HUAC, chess, comedy, suicide, masculinity, Mark Twain, improper questions, and more.
This is Ayn Rand on: ethics, Ernest Hemingway, modern art, Vietnam, Libertarians, Jane Fonda, religious conservatives, Hollywood Communists, atheism, Don Quixote, abortion, gun control, love and marriage, Ronald Reagan, pollution, the Middle East, racism and feminism, crime and punishment, capitalism, prostitution, homosexuality, reason and rationality, literature, drug use, freedom of the press, Richard Nixon, New Left militants, HUAC, chess, comedy, suicide, masculinity, Mark Twain, improper questions, and more.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,2005
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256 pages, Paperback
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November 1, 2005 by Berkley Books
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9780451216656
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0451216652
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English
About the author
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Robert Mayhew is a professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University, where he has taught for over twenty years.
Dr. Mayhew's primary research interests are in ancient philosophy. His most recent publication in the field is Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds (Brill). Other books are Prodicus the Sophist (Oxford UP); Aristotle: Problems (Harvard UP); and Plato: Laws 10 (Oxford UP). He recently completed a book on Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems.
Dr. Mayhew also has a serious scholarly interest in Ayn Rand. He is the author of Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia”: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood, and editor of a collection of essays on each of her four novels. He has also edited some of Ayn Rand's previously unpublished works: Ayn Rand's Marginalia, The Art of Nonfiction, Ayn Rand Answers, and most recently, Ayn Rand's The Unconquered (a play based on We the Living).
Dr. Mayhew serves on the boards of the Ayn Rand Institute and the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship.
Dr. Mayhew's primary research interests are in ancient philosophy. His most recent publication in the field is Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds (Brill). Other books are Prodicus the Sophist (Oxford UP); Aristotle: Problems (Harvard UP); and Plato: Laws 10 (Oxford UP). He recently completed a book on Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems.
Dr. Mayhew also has a serious scholarly interest in Ayn Rand. He is the author of Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia”: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood, and editor of a collection of essays on each of her four novels. He has also edited some of Ayn Rand's previously unpublished works: Ayn Rand's Marginalia, The Art of Nonfiction, Ayn Rand Answers, and most recently, Ayn Rand's The Unconquered (a play based on We the Living).
Dr. Mayhew serves on the boards of the Ayn Rand Institute and the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship.
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Even when circumstances beyond your control make you completely helpless existentially, you are still free intellectually and morally; and if youhang on to your moral conviction no matter what happens, you are saved, at least spiritually; that is ninety percent of the battle. [209:]
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I wish she was here now......but her intellectual heirs are still fighting for rational values!
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If you are a fan of Ayn Rand and have read most of her books, then this book is a must-read. This helps to answer some questions that you still had after reading her nonfiction.
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Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A Robert Mayhew
Going in knowing zero about who Ayn Rand was. This series of interviews I found some interesting thought provoking, well founded common sense sone intense and some bordeline comedic and laugh out out loud and then some just insane and wonderful at the same time, after listening to this I wanted to know more so a bit of online research taught me a lot a Russian American immigrant and a true battler coming to America at the end of the roaring twenties 1920s she battles hard, she gained fame and financial security and developed her philisophy of Objectivism, what is that? Hmmm.
Absolute self interest gaining everything possible by sheer self belief and will power regardless of consequences.
free enterprise, private enterprise, free trade, individualism, non-intervention
Be cruel in your pursuits altruism is a disease and needs to be eradicated. The self is all that matters. Guess she was a true product of anti communism which disrupted her early life but it also made her what she became.
Her. Quote
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power
In the end I enjoyed it and have learnt a lot about how we as a society in western countries now mostly live and follow the philosophy of objectivism whether we know it or don't know about it or what it is and that's just so funny. Anyway I'm feeling enlightened and loved learning about Ayn Rand.
Going in knowing zero about who Ayn Rand was. This series of interviews I found some interesting thought provoking, well founded common sense sone intense and some bordeline comedic and laugh out out loud and then some just insane and wonderful at the same time, after listening to this I wanted to know more so a bit of online research taught me a lot a Russian American immigrant and a true battler coming to America at the end of the roaring twenties 1920s she battles hard, she gained fame and financial security and developed her philisophy of Objectivism, what is that? Hmmm.
Absolute self interest gaining everything possible by sheer self belief and will power regardless of consequences.
free enterprise, private enterprise, free trade, individualism, non-intervention
Be cruel in your pursuits altruism is a disease and needs to be eradicated. The self is all that matters. Guess she was a true product of anti communism which disrupted her early life but it also made her what she became.
Her. Quote
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power
In the end I enjoyed it and have learnt a lot about how we as a society in western countries now mostly live and follow the philosophy of objectivism whether we know it or don't know about it or what it is and that's just so funny. Anyway I'm feeling enlightened and loved learning about Ayn Rand.
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An easy read which is well organized and indexed. We're given exposure to some of Rand's less formally declared beliefs, notably about various artists and writers (some of whom are relatively obscure). A useful peak into the talks she gave, some in semi-private settings.
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This book is awfully biased toward her views but it still explains a lot. I'd love to chat with her about this century and see if any of her staunch objectivism would change.
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An easy read and insightful. You don't need to agree with Ayn Rand's ideology in order to enjoy the book. The q&a format makes it easy to skip around and ask yourself questions about topics you don't normally consider. It's a short "must read" if you want to get a broad view of Rand's opinions. This is also a good book for the purpose of "listening to others" without actually talking to that person.
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