The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than
that of Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek in shaping the contemporary
neo-liberal consensus. Its impact was powerful on architects of
Reaganomics such as Alan Greenspan, former Director of the World
Bank, and the new breed of American industrialists who developed
revolutionary information technologies in Silicon Valley. But what
do we really know of Rand's philosophy? Is her gospel of
selfishness really nothing more than a reiteration of a
quintessentially American "rugged individualism"? This book argues
that Rand's philosophy can in fact be traced back to a moment,
before World War I, when the work of a now-forgotten German
philosopher called Max Stirner possessed an extraordinary appeal
for writers and artists across Europe. The influence of Stirnerian
Egoism upon that phase of intense creative innovation we now call
Modernism was seminal. The implications for our understanding of
Modernism are profound - so too for our grasp of the "cultural
logic of late capitalism". This book presents the reader with a
fresh perspective on the Modernist classics, as well as introducing
less familiar art and writing that is only now beginning to attract
interest in the West. It arrives at a fresh and compelling
re-evaluation of Modernism: revealing its selfish streak.
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