Randian Reflections

by Peter Saint-Andre

Preface

Fiction

• Why is John Galt?
• Why Objectivists Don't Read We The Living
• Image and Integration in Ayn Rand's Descriptive Style
• The Mind on Strike: Atlas Shrugged as the Revolt of the Engineers

Influences

• Zamyatin and Rand
• Hugo, Rand, and the Purpose of Art
• Nietzsche, Rand, and the Ethics of the Great Task
• Our Man in Greece: On the Use and Abuse of Aristotle in the Works of Ayn Rand

Parallels

• Epicurean Pleasure and the Objectivist Good
• Conceptualism in Abelard and Rand
• An Objectivist in China?
• Glenn Gould: Musical Individualist

Aesthetics

• Ayn Rand, Novelist
• Artist Shrugged
• The Individualism of the Poet-Musician
• Saying Yes to Rand and Rock
• The Conceptual Nature of Art

Politics

• Eastern Eyes
• Gentlemen, Leave Your Guns Outside
• Of Guardrails and Gyroscopes
• Toward a Practical Objectivist Politics
• Anarchy, State, and Objectivism

Ethics

• Letting Go of Ought
• Does Sense of Life Make Sense?
• The Art of Friendship
• Friendship in Atlas Shrugged
• A Philosophy for Living on Earth

History

• Ayn Rand and the Ascent of Man
• Ayn Rand and American Culture

Legacy

• Ayn Rand in Historical Perspective
• Objectivity Without Objectivism
• The House That Rand Built
• Objectivism: Who Needs It?
• Objectivism and the Meaning of Life

Last Updated: 2010-05-30