Nikolai Chernyshevskii And Ayn Rand Russian Nihilism Travels To America Aaron Weinacht by Aaron Weinacht 9781793634771, 1793634777 instant download after payment.

Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to Americaargues that the core commitments of the nihilist movement of the 1860’s made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. While mid-nineteenth-century Russian nihilism has generally been seen as part of a radical tradition that culminated in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the author argues that nihilism’s intellectual trajectory was in fact quite different. Analysis of such sources as Nikolai Chernyshevskii’sWhat is to Be Done?(1863) and Ayn Rand’sAtlas Shrugged(1957), archival research in Rand’s papers, and broad attention to late-nineteenth century Russian intellectual history all lead the author to conclude that nihilism’s legacy is deeply implicated in one of America’s most widely-read philosophers of capitalism and libertarian freedom.