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Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 23:49:08 MDT
From: Chris Matthew Sciabarra chris.sciabarra@nyu.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:20 AM
Subject: SPRING 2001 JOURNAL OF AYN RAND STUDIES ARRIVES!
This is to announce the publication of the Spring 2001 issue of THE JOURNAL
OF AYN RAND STUDIES (Vol. 2, No. 2). JARS offers the first comprehensive
scholarly forum for the discussion of Ayn Rand's aesthetics. Inspired by
the publication of Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi's WHAT ART IS:
THE ESTHETIC THEORY OF AYN RAND (Open Court, 2000), the Aesthetics
Symposium features contributions from philosophers, literary critics,
musicians, painters, poets, and cultural theorists. Here is the full Table
of Contents:
The Aesthetics Symposium
What Art Does - Lester Hunt
What Art Is: What's Not to Like? - Jeff Riggenbach
Nordau's DEGENERATION and Tolstoy's WHAT IS ART? Still Live - Gene H.
Bell-Villada
Critical Misinterpretations and Missed Opportunities: Errors and Omissions
by Kamhi and Torres - Roger Bissell
Rand's Aesthetics: A Personal View - John Hospers
Reasoning About Art - David Kelley
Art: What a Concept - John Enright
Guggenheims and Grand Canyons - Barry Vacker
On Metaphysical Value-Judgments - Michael Newberry
The Puzzle of Music and Emotion in Rand's Aesthetics - Randall R. Dipert
Book Review Essay
The Benefits and Hazards of Dialectical Libertarianism (review of Chris
Matthew Sciabarra's TOTAL FREEDOM: TOWARD A DIALECTICAL LIBERTARIANISM) -
Roderick T. Long
Discussion
Reply to Johnson and Rasmussen: Another Look at Abortion - Tibor Machan
Reply to Johnson and Rasmussen: Rand the Moderate - Alexander Tabarrok
Rejoinder to Machan and Tabarrok: Rand and Abortion, Revisited - Gregory R.
Johnson and David Rasmussen
Full abstracts are available on-line at:
http://aynrandstudies.com/jars/v2_n2/2_2toc.asp
Contributor biographies are available online at:
http://aynrandstudies.com/jars/v2_n2/2_2bio.asp
For those interested in submitting papers to our double-blind peer review
process, go to the main menu and navigate to pages on style and substance.
We welcome contributions from all disciplines and from every perspective.
We are a non-partisan journal, not aligned with any advocacy group,
institute, or person. Information on how to subscribe and how to recommend
JARS to your institutional library is available too. Point your browsers to:
Cheers,
Chris
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New York University Department of Politics
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New York, New York 10003-6806
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: chris.sciabarra@nyu.edu
Dialectics and Liberty Website:
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra
The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies:
http://www.aynrandstudies.com
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