NoodleFood: Andy Bernstein on Ayn Rand's Fiction

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Andy Bernstein on Ayn Rand's Fiction
By Diana Hsieh @ 3:20 PM
A rather large number of lectures by Andy Bernstein are on sale at the Ayn Rand Bookstore through February. For those who've heard some or all of them, I'm wondering which you might recommend as particularly enlightening. To set the context, I'm largely interested in them as source material for teaching The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in philosophy courses. So Kantianism vs. Objectivism in The Fountainhead and Ayn Rand's Characters as Philosophic Archetypes (Parts 1 & 2) sound particularly interesting to me.

Here's the list of the lectures on sale:

Rational Egoism in The Fountainhead -- Sale Price: $22.36 (List Price: $27.95)
Kantianism vs. Objectivism in The Fountainhead -- Sale Price: $14.36 (List Price: $17.95)
Ayn Rand's Characters as Philosophic Archetypes (Parts 1 & 2) -- Sale Price: $88.74 (List Price: $147.90)
The Mind vs. Collectivism in Ayn Rand's Novels -- Sale Price: $11.16 (List Price: $13.95)
The Mind as Hero in Atlas Shrugged -- Sale Price: $19.16 (List Price: $23.95)
Atlas Shrugged as the Culmination of the Romantic Novel -- Sale Price: $14.36 (List Price: $17.95)
Philosophic and Literary Integration in Atlas Shrugged -- Sale Price: $63.67 (List Price: $90.95)
Objectivism's Man-Worship vs. Contemporary Man-Hatred -- Sale Price: $44.96 (List Price: $59.95)
The Philosophy of Romantic Fiction -- Sale Price: $47.21 (List Price: $62.95)
How to Be an Impassioned Valuer -- Sale Price: $38.96 (List Price: $51.95)
Primacy of Consciousness vs. The Objectivist Ethics -- Sale Price: $42.71 (List Price: $56.95)
Objectivism and the Revolution in Political Philosophy -- Sale Price: $48.27 (List Price: $68.95)
How to Spread Objectivism -- Sale Price: $7.00 (List Price: $8.75)
Objectivism for Beginners -- Sale Price: $42.71 (List Price: $56.95)
Four Giants of Philosophy -- Sale Price: $34.46 (List Price: $45.95)
Friedrich Nietzsche: His Thought, His Legacy, His Influence on Ayn Rand -- Sale Price: $48.27 (List Price: $68.95)
Villainy: The Nature of Evil -- Sale Price: $14.36 (List Price: $17.95)

I just thought that perhaps I should e-mail Andy with my question! Although I'll do that, I'm still very intrestested in what listeners would recommend.
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