Out of a Gray Fog

Claudia Franziska Brühwiler holds a doctorate in Political Science and a venia legendi (PD; Privatdozentin) in American Studies from the University of St.Gallen where she teaches U.S. politics, history, and culture.

• Introduction: All-American Rand?Chapter 1: Writer, Philosopher, Icon, Dime-Store Ideologue? Categorizing RandChapter 2: Choosing America, Being EuropeanChapter 3: “A Huge Cemetery”: Russia as DystopiaChapter 4: Rand’s Europe: From Utopia to a “State-worshipping Culture”Chapter 5: Kantian Evils and Aristotelian Misunderstandings: Randian Usage of European PhilosophyChapter 6: Lost in Translation: Publishing Rand in EuropeChapter 7: Tea Party Icon and Capitalist Porn: Rand in the European MediaChapter 8: A European Collective? Randian Thought across the AtlanticChapter 9: Critical Reflections: Rand through the Lens of European Artists

Claudia Bruhwiler has accomplished something utterly remarkable in Out of the Gray Fog. She has captured - in beautiful, nuanced prose - a series of undiscovered connections between European and American intellectual life, and in doing so she has brought to life an unknown Ayn Rand, preoccupied not just with questions of political economy but of overcoming her Russian past while articulating a complex of ideas, stories and narratives intended for audiences in the United States, Europe, Russia and beyond. This original, path-breaking book is literary and intellectual history at its very best; it is an indispensable study of twentieth-century ideas.