Ayn Rand and the Posthuman The Mind-Made Future
Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist’s relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and economists. Ben Murnane demonstrate
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The Mind-Made Future
Ayn Rand and the Posthuman
Ben Murnane
Ayn Rand and the Posthuman The Mind-Made Future
Ben Murnane Wicklow, Ireland
ISBN 978-3-319-90852-6 ISBN 978-3-319-90853-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90853-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018940745 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: © Donald Iain Smith/Getty Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To my mum, Mai—I hope this is sharp enough and my dad, Des—who wanted his own copy
Acknowledgements
This book is an adaptation of my Ph.D. thesis, submitted to Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 2016. The idea for the thesis originally emerged out of conversations with a friend and former work colleague, Philip Pilkington, author of The Reformation in Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Phil reintroduced me to Ayn Rand and the breadth of her impact, and it became something I wanted to write about. I am enormously grateful for that foundational input. Early encouragement came from several others, friends who have been continual sources of advice and useful criticism throughout the process of thesis- and book-writing: Christopher Collins, Monica Insinga, Emma Eager, and Gabriel Graham. I am especially grateful to Monica, without whose support I may never have begun a Ph.D. In addition to these, more friends read the thesis in its final stages, and helped put it to bed: Hugh Doherty, John Douglas, Steve Ellerhoff, and Colman O’Sullivan. I must also acknowledge a singular website as a foundational resource: Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish (http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/). The blog was a
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