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  • Mean Girl

  • Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
  • By: Lisa Duggan
  • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
  • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: Lisa Duggan
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Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the 21st century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right, from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the 20th century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand’s philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.
©2019 Lisa Duggan (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
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Very interesting

This book is interesting. Definitely recommend. I agree that society needs to reject Ayn Rand and her objectivist cult, especially the so called elite 🙄. Objectivist metaphysics is deeply flawed, hence why her followers are so hostile when her work is criticised and discussed. Sociopath normalising is disturbing. 🤨

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