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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Weiner, Adam. author.     Subjects     Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich, 1828-1889. Chto delatʹ?     Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich, 1828-1889 -- Influence.     Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich,     Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Influence.     Černyševskij, Nikolaj G.     Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- Influence.     Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,     Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič     Rand, Ayn -- Influence.     Rand, Ayn     Russian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.     Rationalism in literature.     Egoism in literature.     Economics and literature -- United States.     LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comparative Literature.     Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)     Russian fiction.     Russian fiction -- History and criticism. -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Weiner, Adam. author.       by title:      How bad writing dest...         MARC Display

How bad writing destroyed the world : Ayn Rand and the literary origins of the financial crisis / Adam Weiner. by Weiner, Adam. author. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2016. Description:  250 pages ; 20 cm 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. Summary:  Literary history meets economic policy in this entertaining polemic on the ethical and potentially destructive power of terrible literature. --Publisher. "Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans decades and continents to reveal the surprising connections between the 2008-2009 financial crisis and a relatively unknown nineteenth-century Russian author. A congressional investigation placed the blame for the financial crisis on Alan Greenspan and his deregulatory policies-his attempts, in essence, to put Ayn Rand's Objectivism into practice. Though developed most famously in Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism sprouted from the Rational Egoism of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What Is to be Done? (1863), an enormously influential Russian novel decried by the likes of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov for its destructive radical ethics. In tracing the origins of Greenspan's ruinous ideology, How Bad Writing Destroyed the World combines literary and intellectual history to uncover the danger of hawking "the virtues of selfishness," even in fiction." ---Amazon   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 891.73 Wei 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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