[extropy-chat] JARS Rand Centenary Celebration, Part I

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Volume 6, Number 1 of THE JOURNAL OF AYN RAND STUDIES has just been
published.   This Fall 2004 issue is the first of two symposia
celebrating the Ayn Rand Centenary (which is marked, officially, on 2
February 2005).  It is entitled "Ayn Rand:  Literary and Cultural
Impact," and it features the articles and contributors listed below.
Our second Rand Centenary issue is entitled "Ayn Rand Among the
Austrians," and it includes  contributions from Walter Block, Peter J.
Boettke, Steven Horwitz, Roderick T. Long, George Reisman, Larry J.
Sechrest, Leland Yeager, Ed Younkins, and others.  Information on that
issue will be available in the Spring of 2005.


Fall 2004 Table of Contents
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Centenary Symposium, Part I --- Ayn Rand: Literary and Cultural Impact

The Illustrated Rand By Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Passing the Torch By Erika Holzer

Completing Rand's Literary Theory By Stephen Cox

Ayn Rand's Influence on American Popular Fiction By Jeff Riggenbach

Integrating Mind and Body By Matthew Stoloff

The Poetics of Admiration:  Ayn Rand and the Art of Heroic Fiction By
Kirsti Minsaas

The Russian Cultural Connection:  Alexander Etkind on Ayn Rand By Cathy
Young

The Russian Subtext of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead By Bernice
Rosenthal

Reply to Kirsti Minsaas: Toward an American Renaissance By Alexandra
York

For article abstracts, click here:
http://www.aynrandstudies.com/jars/v6_n1/6_1toc.asp

For contributor biographies, click here:
http://www.aynrandstudies.com/jars/v6_n1/6_1bio.asp

For information on subscriptions, click here:
http://www.aynrandstudies.com/jars/subscribForm.asp
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