Böcker av Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Develops a critique of utopianism through a comparison of the works of Karl Marx and F. A. Hayek, challenging conventional views of both Marxian and Hayekian thought.

This text demonstrates how crucial a role dialectics has played in the work of many great philosophers. Following a survey of dialectics from the Ancient Greeks to the Austrian school of economics, it investigates in detail the work of Murray Rothbard as a leading modern libertarian.

This work, based on materials from the Leningrad archives, interviews with Russian contemporaries of Rand and a diversity of sources within the written and oral tradition of objectivism, provides an analysis of the intellectual roots and philosophy of Ayn Rand.