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How bad writing destroyed the world : Ayn Rand and the literary origins of the financial crisis / Adam Weiner.

Author/creator Weiner, Adam author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Description250 pages ; 20 cm
Subject(s)
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich, 1828-1889. Chto delatʹ.
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich, 1828-1889--Influence.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Influence.
Rand, Ayn--Influence.
Russian fiction--19th century --History and criticism.
Russian literature--Influence.
Russian literature--Economic aspects.
Russian literature--Moral and ethical aspects.
Rationalism in literature.
Egoism in literature.
Economics and literature--United States.
Contents Introduction: on the dubious virtue of selfishness -- Radicalizing Dostoevsky -- "The most atrocious work of Russian literature" -- Dostoevsky reborn -- Rigor "mortus" or waiting for Rakhmetov -- Fire in the minds of men -- Rakhmetov lives! -- The vengeance of the muse -- In the graveyard of bad ideas.
Abstract Literary history meets economic policy in this entertaining polemic on the ethical and potentially destructive power of terrible literature. --Publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 220-244) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2016012074
ISBN9781501313110 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN1501313118 paperback alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic publication

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