Ayn Rand Cult

Summary: Despised by the intellectual establishment, Ayn Rand continues to attract many thousands of devoted followers. Her "Objectivist" movement preaches an uncompromising hard line on politics, art, sex, and psychological health. Though much has been written about Rand, The Ayn Rand Cult is the first book to explain the true origin of her ideas and to show how they were shaped into a new, atheistic religion. Jeff Walker shatters many myths about Rand, exposing Objectivism as a classic cult, unusual because of its overt emphasis on self-interest, rationality, and atheism, but typical of cults in its.

Record details

ISBN: 9780812698190 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0812698193 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (417 p.)
Publisher: New York : Open Court, 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface; Chronology of the Objectivist Movement; Introduction: The Most Peculiar Cult on Earth; 1: The Cult While the Guru Lived; 2: Entrails: The Anatomy of the Cult; 3: The Cult After the Guru's Death; 4: Sex, Art, and Psychotherapy; 5: Nathaniel Branden: The Godfather of Self-Esteem; 6: Leonard Peikoff: From Serf to Pontiff; 7: Alan Greenspan: The Undertaker Takes Over; 8: The Mind of the Guru; 9: The Dark Side of the Guru's Soul; 10: The Roots of Objectivism; 11: The Disowned Ancestry of "Atlas Shrugged"; 12: Ayn Rand's Legacy; Notes; Sources; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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