A Companion To Ayn Rand

The first publication to offer a serious academic study of Rand’s often marginalized corpus, this comprehensive companion provides critical analysis of her prolific and iconoclastic writings, including her novels, her political commentary, and the essays in which she laid out her philosophy of Objectivism.

• The first publication to provide a wide-ranging critical commentary for an academic readership on Rand’s varied and challenging output
• Contains chapters by many of the leading experts in Rand’s thought
• Provides informed contextual analysis for scholars in a variety of disciplines
• Features original research on unpublished material and drafts from the Rand archives in California
• Features insightful and fair-minded interpretations of Rand’s controversial beliefs

Allan Gotthelf was Anthem Foundation Distinguished Fellow at Rutgers University, USA, and emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. For nine years he was a visiting professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His influential papers on Aristotle are collected in Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle’s Biology (2012). He was Secretary of the Ayn Rand Society (a professional group affiliated with the American Philosophical Association) and the primary editor of its Philosophical Studies series.

Gregory Salmieri is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University, USA, and Co-Secretary of the Ayn Rand Society. He has taught philosophy at Boston University and The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has published on Aristotle’s epistemology and ethics and on Rand’s philosophy and novels. His current projects include a monograph on Aristotle’s epistemology and an edited multi-author collection on the same subject.