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Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

2 reviews
Robert Mayhew

Lexington Books, 2006

INSIGHT INTO THE GREAT CLASSIC!
Most people don't read literary criticism for pleasure. With good reason: most of it's pretentious, muddle-headed, even corrupt, spouting the poisonous dogma that your mind can't see facts, all it sees is warped by "class, race, and gender." (Then how can they claim that as fact?) This book is a glowing exception. It's a clear, straightforward, helpful, and fascinating look at Ayn Rand's ...

The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

14 reviews
Ayn Rand

Topeka Bindery, 2001

Clear as a bell
As with so much of Ayn Rand's writing, she takes on an issue (in this case, nonfiction writing) that seems hopelessly complex, and then explains it with such clarity that you're left wondering what all the confusion was about in the first place. If you're stuck in your writing, even if you've never read anything by Rand before, this book is priceless.

Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living

2 reviews
Robert Mayhew

Lexington Books, 2004

FASCINATING!
Most recent literary criticism cannot be read for pleasure. It's pretentious, muddle-headed, even corrupt, spouting the poisonous dogma that your mind can't see facts, all it sees is warped by "class, race, and gender." (Then how can they claim that as fact?) This book is a rare exception. It's a clear, straightforward, helpful and ultimately fascinating look at Ayn Rand's first ...

Ayn Rand's Marginalia : Her Critical Comments on the Writings of over Twenty Authors

16 reviews
Ayn Rand

Second Renaissance Books, 1998

cowardly critics
It's very nice to see all of the critical comments on Rand backed up by nothing in terms of substance. Indeed, the reviews are almost akin to, "I don't understand Rand but I shall say she is bad regardless." I don't blame those of you who identify yourselves as "A Reader" rather than leaving your email addresses and names. I would expect no less considering the intellectual cowardice within ...

Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural ...
Robert J. Mayhew

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the "long" eighteenth century. Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about the nature of eighteenth-century English culture; this book surveys those debates and offers a provocative new account. Mayhew shows that describing landscape was a religiously contested ...

Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A

11 reviews

NAL Trade, 2005

The Genius of Ayn Rand
This book is a good clear and concise guide to Ayn Rand's thoughts on a variety of issues. From taxes to ethics to Ernest Hemingway to capitalism to homosexuality, Rand forthrightly, clearly and honestly answers many questions put to her. This book also cleared up many questions I had about Ayn Rand and this book solidifies here as the great intellectual and philosopher she was. While the ...

Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem

3 reviews
Robert Mayhew

Lexington Books, 2005

Rand Scholarship...the way it might be and ought to be
I was impressed by the scholarship of this volume. Each essay was rich with fresh angles, new insights, and interesting asides into Ayn Rand, Anthem, and Rand's philosophy. I also learned a lot from the philosophical essays, particularly Onkar Ghate's essay on free will and determinism, Greg Salmieri's essay on individualism and the concept "I", and Darryl Wright's essay on the psyche in Rand's ...

The Assembly of Women: Ecclesiazusae (Literary Classics (Prometheus Books))

2 reviews
Aristophanes

Prometheus Books, 1997

Middle Comedy never looked so new!
A specter is haunting Athens, the specter of communism. This premise animates the plot of Aristophenes' comedy "Ecclesiazusae" (or "Assembly of Women"), wherein the heroine Praxagora leads a conspiracy of hags dressed as men to vote themselves into power. Fresh from her victory, Praxagora unveils her plan for a brave, new world where all property, children and sex are held in common. What ...

Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood

4 reviews
Robert Mayhew

The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004

Naming Facts - The Truth about Hollywood Communism
This is an excellent book on Ayn Rand's famous 1947 testimony, before the House Un-American Activities Committee, on MGM's 1944 movie Song of Russia. Ayn Rand exposed the movie as pro-Soviet propaganda, a deliberate whitewash of the terrible reality of life under communism. Robert Mayhew discusses every point of her testimony in relation to the historical record of the Soviet Union, proving ...

The Female in Aristotle's Biology: Reason or Rationalization
Robert Mayhew

University Of Chicago Press, 2004

While Aristotle's writings on biology are considered to be among his best, the comments he makes about females in these works are widely regarded as the nadir of his philosophical oeuvre. Among many claims, Aristotle is said to have declared that females contribute nothing substantial to generation; that they have fewer teeth than males; that they are less spirited than males; and that woman are analogous to eunuchs. In The Female in ...

Plato: Laws 10: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (Clarendon Plato Series)

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

The Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. Although it has been neglected (compared to such works as the Republic and Symposium), it is beginning to receive a great deal of scholarly attention. Book 10 of the Laws contains Plato's fullest defence of the existence of the gods, and his last word on their nature, as well as a presentation and defence of laws against impiety (e.g. atheism). Plato's primary aim is to defend the idea that the gods ...

Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic
Robert Mayhew

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997

The first five chapters of the second book of Aristotle's "Politics" contain a series of criticisms levelled against Plato's "Republic". Despite the abundance of studies that have been done on Aristotle's "Politics", these chapters have for the most part been neglected; there has been no book-length study of them this century. In this important new book, Robert Mayhew fills this unfortunate gap in Aristotelian scholarship, analyzing these ...

Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850 (Studies in Modern History)
Robert J. Mayhew

Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

This book is the first detailed study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical knowledge in the period from 1650 to 1850. It is a contribution to the intellectual history of geographical knowledge in particular and of Britain more generally. The definition and role of geography in a humanist structure of knowledge are examined, as are the audience for and print culture of geography before its formalization ...

Aristotle's 'Physics': A Collection of Essays.: An article from: The Review of Metaphysics
Robert Mayhew

Philosophy Education Society, Inc., 1993

This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on September 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1049 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Aristotle's ...

Xenophon Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary.(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of ...
Robert Mayhew

Philosophy Education Society, Inc., 1996

This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 492 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Xenophon Oeconomicus: A ...

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