Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greedvolume 8 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520294776)

"Astute."--New York Times

Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand's trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand's philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.

Author: Lisa Duggan
ISBN-10: 0520294777
ISBN-13: 9780520294776
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d

About the Author
Lisa Duggan is a historian, journalist, activist, and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy.