期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1998
卷号：23
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：I want to say a few words that will be elaborated on more fully by my . . colleagues about why Ayn Rand is worth studying. This is different issue from why she is influential. She appeals to people for lots of reasons, but what is of concern here is the academic question-why is she worth spending any serious time reading as a possible significant thinker in our era. I see the matter in three categories, starting with the broadest: Rand has a remarkable knack of being insightful intellectually. I think that sometimes she fails to fill in some gaps which then need to be filled in by others, but she has an intellectual vision. It perhaps is a coherent one, but it is certainly interesting in the sense that Rand has put together what people would not normally have conjoined, and she has - - revived an interest in things that people (at least early on) were moving away from.
