Ayn Rand Cult

Ayn Rand Cult
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Publisher : Open Court
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780812698190
ISBN-13 : 0812698193
Rating : 4/5 (193 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ayn Rand Cult by : Jeff Walker

Download or read book Ayn Rand Cult written by Jeff Walker and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 guru-worship, thought control, trial and excommunication of deviants, and hostility to existing society.


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