TABLE OF CONTENTS |
In the following Table of Contents to the second edition of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, the page numbers in [brackets] are those that refer to the corresponding pages where the material appears in the first edition. This enables readers to see the broader scope of the 2013 second edition in comparison to the original 1995 published work.
Preface to the Second Edition ix-xii [1st: not included]
Acknowledgments xiii-xv [1st: xi-xiii]
Introduction 1-19 [1st: 1-20]
Rand Scholarship: Problems and
Perspectives 3 [1st: 3]
The Study in Brief 8 [1st: 9]
Dialectics and Dualism 13 [1st: 14]
Part One: The Process of Becoming 21 [1st: 21]
Chapter 1: Synthesis in Russian Culture 22 [1st: 23]
The Character of Russian Philosophy 24 [1st: 25]
The Slavophiles 25 [1st: 26]
The Impact of Vladimir Solovyov 27 [1st: 29]
The Silver Age 29 [1st: 31]
The Influence of Nietzsche in Russia 30 [1st: 31]
Neo-Idealism and the Russian Religious Renaissance 33 [1st: 35]
Russian Marxism 35 [1st: 37]
Chapter 2: Lossky, the Teacher 39 [1st: 41]
An Extraordinary Life 40 [1st: 42]
Lossky's Philosophy: An Eclectic Synthesis 43 [1st: 45]
Lossky and Aristotle 45 [1st: 48]
Lossky's Epistemology 50 [1st: 53]
The World as an Organic Whole 53 [1st: 56]
Chapter 3: Educating Alissa 62 [1st: 66]
The Early Years 63 [1st: 68]
The Stoiunin Gymnasium 65 [1st: 69]
The Crimean Gymnasium 67 [1st: 71]
A Revolution in Education 68 [1st: 72]
Majoring in History 72 [1st: 77]
Minoring in Philosophy 76 [1st: 82]
Lossky and Rand 78 [1st: 84]
A Reign of Terror 85 [1st: 91]
Coming to America 87 [1st: 93]
Chapter 4: The Maturation of Ayn Rand 90 [1st: 96]
Novelist and Philosopher 90 [1st: 96]
Digesting the Past 91 [1st: 97]
We the Living 93 [1st: 99]
A "Nietzschean" Phase? 94 [1st: 100]
The Fountainhead 100 [1st: 106]
Early Nonfiction 105 [1st: 112]
Atlas Shrugged 106 [1st: 113]
The Public Philosopher 110 [1st: 117]
Part Two: The Revolt against Dualism 115 [1st: 123]
Chapter 5: Being 116 [1st: 125]
The Rejection of Cosmology 120 [1st: 129]
Axiomatic Concepts 124 [1st: 134]
Ontology and Logic 129 [1st: 138]
The Entity as a Cluster of Qualities 133 [1st: 143]
The Metaphysical versus the Man-Made 137 [1st: 147]
Rand versus Kant 138 [1st: 149]Chapter 6: Knowing 143 [1st: 154]
Rejecting Epistemological Dualism 143 [1st: 154]
Perception 149 [1st: 160]
Volition and Focus 152 [1st: 164]
Reason 154 [1st: 166]
Abstraction and Conception 156 [1st: 168]
Internal Relations Revisited 161 [1st: 174]Chapter 7: Reason and Emotion 167 [1st: 179]
The Nature of Emotions 168 [1st: 180]
Branden's Critique 173 [1st: 186]
The Conscious and the Subconscious 177 [1st: 189]
Psychological Integration 182 [1st: 195]Chapter 8: Art, Philosophy, and Efficacy 189 [1st: 202]
The Function of Art 191 [1st: 204]
The Function of Philosophy 197 [1st: 210]
The Will to Efficacy 202 [1st: 215]
Rationalism and Empiricism 203 [1st: 217]
Rand and Hayek 208 [1st: 222]Chapter 9: Ethics and Human Survival 215 [1st: 230]
Beyond Fact and Value 215 [1st: 230]
Life and Value 221 [1st: 236]
Rationality and Virtue 227 [1st: 243]
Productive Work 230 [1st: 246]
The Virtue of Selfishness 232 [1st: 248]
Love and Sex 236 [1st: 252]
Eudaemonia 240 [1st: 256]
Morality and Moralizing 244 [1st: 260]Chapter 10: A Libertarian Politics 248 [1st: 266]
The Individual and Society 249 [1st: 267]
Force 252 [1st: 270]
Individual Rights 255 [1st: 273]
Anarchy and Government 260 [1st: 278]
Capitalism 264 [1st: 283]
Part Three: The Radical Rand 275 [1st: 295]
Chapter 11: Relations of Power 276 [1st: 297]
Master and Slave 279 [1st: 300]
A Linguistic Turn 289 [1st: 311]
The Antirational Culture 297 [1st: 319]Chapter 12: The Predatory State 307 [1st: 330]
The Mixed Economy 307 [1st: 330]
Economic Dislocation 309 [1st: 332]
The Welfare-Warfare State 315 [1st: section not included; limited discussion, pages 338-41, in section on "Economic Dislocation"]
Social Fragmentation 323 [1st: 341]
Racism 324 [1st: 343]
Conservatism versus Liberalism 330 [1st: 348]Chapter 13: History and Resolution 333 [1st: 352]
Attila versus the Witch Doctor 333 [1st: 352]
The Primacy of Philosophy 337 [1st: 356]
"What Can One Do?" 343 [1st: 363]
The Objectivist Society 345 [1st: 365]
God-Builder? 349 [1st: 369]
The Communitarian Impulse 352 [1st: 372]
Epilogue 359 [1st: 380]
Appendices [1st: none of these appendices is included in the first edition]
Appendix I: The Rand Transcript [1999] 363
Acknowledgments 380Appendix II: The Rand Transcript, Revisited [2005] 381
Introduction 381
The Archival Materials 382
N. O. Lossky, Revisited 388
Conclusion 391Appendix III: A Challenge to Russian Radical---and Ayn Rand [2013] 393-99
Notes 400 [1st: 385]
References 469 [1st: 439]
Index 489-526 [1st: 457-77]