Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand - Russian Nihilism Travels to America

Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America argues that the core commitments of the 1860's nihilism made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. Nikolai Chernyshevskii's What is to Be Done? (1863) and Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957) identify similar problems; identical theses propose to solve those problems.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Establishing the Nihilist Axiom: Rational Egoism in Chernyshevskii, Pisarev, and Rand
Chapter 2: Heroism and Creativity as a Nihilist Tradition
Chapter 3: Youth, Suffering, and the Man-God Problem
Chapter 4: Love, Sex, and Relationships
Conclusion: The Nihilist Self in Context

About the author

Aaron Weinacht is professor of history at the University of Montana Western.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Weinacht
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781793634771
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-477-1
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Political science & theory, Language: reference & general