Questioning Ayn Rand

Neil Cocks is Associate Professor of Literary Perspective in the Department of English Literature, University of Reading, UK. He is the author of Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction: Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood (Palgrave 2017) and The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism (Palgrave 2014).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: uncanny Rand, Neil Cocks.- Chapter 2: Reading Ayn Rand psychoanalytically: ethics, libertarian and otherwise, Ian Parker.- Chapter 3: Psychologization, what it is and what it is not: Objectivism, psychology, and Silicon Valley, Jan de Vos.- Chapter 4: Narrated Rand: HUAC, engraved invitations, and the real of sexual difference, Neil Cocks.- Chapter 5: The American mythology of individualism: Emerson, Ayn Rand, and the Romantic child, Kristina West.- Chapter 6: Selfish cinema: sex, heroism, and control in adaptations of Ayn Rand for the screen, Lisa Downing.- Chapter 7: At home with Marx and Rand: returning man in prehistory, Bonnie McGill.- Chapter 8: The New Left: Rand, pedagogy, and ‘the cure’, Jerome Cox- Strong.- Chapter 9: Topographies of Liberal Thought: Rand and Arendt and Race, Stephen Thomson.- Chapter 10: ‘“Oh, that's Francisco's private joke” […]’: Atlas Shrugged, the gold standard, and utopia, Neil Cocks.