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Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America

Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America

Weinacht, Aaron
Trepanier, Lee

Hardcover

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1793634777
ISBN13: 9781793634771
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 7 2021
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America argues that the core commitments of the nihilist movement of the 1860's made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. While mid-nineteenth-century Russian nihilism has generally been seen as part of a radical tradition that culminated in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the author argues that nihilism's intellectual trajectory was in fact quite different. Analysis of such sources as Nikolai Chernyshevskii's What is to Be Done? (1863) and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957), archival research in Rand's papers, and broad attention to late-nineteenth century Russian intellectual history all lead the author to conclude that nihilism's legacy is deeply implicated in one of America's most widely-read philosophers of capitalism and libertarian freedom.

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