On Ayn Rand

On Ayn Rand
On Ayn Rand  
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Cover of the first edition
Author(s) Allan Gotthelf
Series Wadsworth Philosophers
Subject(s) Ayn Rand
Genre(s) Philosophical biography
Publisher Wadsworth Publishing
Publication date 2000
Pages 104
ISBN 978-0-53-457625-7
OCLC Number 43668181
Dewey Decimal 191 21
LC Classification B945.R234 G68 2000

On Ayn Rand is a book about the life and thought of 20th-century philosopher Ayn Rand, written by scholar Allan Gotthelf and published in early 2000 by Wadsworth Publishing (now part of Cengage Learning) in its Wadsworth Philosophers series.

Contents

Reception

Objectivist scholar Tara Smith reviewed the work for The Review of Metaphysics and described it as "an admirably essentialized review" that "joins scholarly rigor with firsthand knowledge of Rand’s thought to provide a systematic introduction to Rand’s philosophy." Smith does find some of Gotthelf's explanations to be "slightly too abbreviated for the targeted audience" and finds his brief treatment of some topics to be "somewhat frustrating."[1]

In a review in Teaching Philosophy, Irfan Khawaja says, "Gotthelf’s illuminating account of Rand’s epistemology offers an intriguing point of entry... as well as an object lesson on the relationship between epistemology and ethics... On Ayn Rand is a remarkable success... I can’t think of a piece of writing that better conveys both the systematicity and the grandeur of Rand’s thought than the last four pages of Gotthelf’s book."[2] Scholar Edward W. Younkins also praised the work, calling it a "fine" but shorter version of Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff's book about Rand's philosophy.[3]

In a review, Rand scholar Chris Matthew Sciabarra welcomes the addition of another book to the literature about Rand, but criticizes Gotthelf for not addressing most other secondary works about Rand, in particular accusing him of "refusal to mention any non-orthodox works." Sciabarra says the book suffers from an "orthodox interpretation" of Rand's life and ideas, and also gives insufficient attention to her politics and aesthetics.[4]

In a paper on the critical neglect of Rand's aesthetic philosophy, Michelle Marder Kamhi and Louis Torres criticized Gotthelf for spending a mere half a page of the book discussing the topic.[5] Kamhi and Torres also criticised Gotthelf's statement that one's sense of life is directly dependent on philosophy (in contrast to Rand), and his uncritical acceptance of Rand's definition of romantic art in terms of the acceptance of man's free will.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Smith, Tara (March 2001). "On Ayn Rand (book review)". The Review of Metaphysics 54 (3): 654–55. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-2078622_ITM. 
  2. ^ Khawaja, Irfan (March 2002). "On Ayn Rand, by Allan Gotthelf". Teaching Philosophy (Bowling Green State University) 25 (1). 
  3. ^ Younkins, Edward W. (2007). Champions of a Free Society. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. p. 201. ISBN 0-7391-2648-2. 
  4. ^ Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (January/February 2000). "Orthodox Interpretations of Ayn Rand". Full Context 12 (3): 8–11. http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/essays/oioar.htm. 
  5. ^ a b Michelle Marder Kamhi; Louis Torres (Fall 2000). "Critical neglect of Ayn Rand’s theory of art". Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 2 (1): 1–46. http://www.aristos.org/editors/critneg.pdf. 

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