Ayn Rand and the Posthuman The Mind-Made Future /

• Main Author: Murnane, Ben (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Technology in literature.; Literature-Philosophy.; Contemporary Literature.; Literature and Technology/Media.; Literary Theory.

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 demonstrates Rand's connection to, and impact...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: A Posthuman Objective
• Chapter 2: Points of Entry
• Chapter 3: The Posthuman and the Objectivist
• Chapter 4: Rand Noir vs Rand Incorporated
• Chapter 5: Objectivism in BioShock
• Chapter 6: Howard Roark, John Galt, and The Transhumanist Wager
• Chapter 7: Afterword: The Mind-Made Future.