RAND,AYN - THE RUSSIAN RADICAL - SCIABARRA,C

Chris Sciabarra's Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical offers a novel view of the founder of Objectivism. Sciabarra contends that Rand war influenc ed by Hegelian and Marxist themes that dominated Russian thought durin g its Silver Age, particularly the doctrine of infernal relations. Yet while it is true that key Hegelian and Marxist concepts, such as the dialectics of work and the master-slave relationship, are features of Rand's radical outlook, Sciabarra fails in his major argument that Ran d's dialectical method presents an alternative to that of Mane and Heg el.