The Romantic Manifesto_ A Philosophy of Literature - Ayn Rand [86]
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Index
Abstractions: and man’s cognitive faculty; converting of, by language, into psycho-epistemological equivalents of concretes ; normative and cognitive ; metaphysical, converting of, by art, into equivalent of concretes ; emotional; criteria of; esthetic; development of child’s cognitive and normative abstractions
Altruism: and man’s culturally induced selflessness; as archenemy and destroyer of Romanticism
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), as a bad novel
Anna Christie (O’Neill), as imitation of Camille (Dumas fils)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), as an evil book
Anti-art, classification and examples of
Aquinas, Thomas, as bridge between Aristotle and Renaissance
Architecture: special attributes of as art; dependence of sculpture upon
Aristotle: his principle of esthetics of literature ; 19th century guided by Aristotelian sense of life; Romanticism of 19th century, and Aristotelian influence on
Art: as an end in itself; as selective re-creation of reality according to artist’s metaphysical value-judgments ; as concretiztion of metaphysics ; psycho-epistemological function of; as a universal language; beginning of, as adjunct of religion ; psycho-epistemology of, as illustrated by characterization in literature ; as indispensable medium for communication of a moral ideal; primary focus of, as metaphysical, not ethical; not the means of literal transcription ; place of ethics in, dependent on metaphysical views of artist; of Ancient Greece compared to art of Middle Ages, in impact on man; as voice of the philosophy dominant in a culture; role of emotions in; profoundly personal significance of, for men; as special province and expression of sense of life ; as human product most personally important to man and least understood ; metaphysical significance of everything included in; and man’s confirmation of his view of existence; and the rational man; and the irrational man; as man’s metaphysical mirror ; bad, as production of imitation, second-hand copying, lack of creative expression; philosophical meaning as necessary element of work of; subject of an art work; style of an art work ; and mixtures of contradictory elements of reason and unreason; theme of an art work; objective evaluation of work of; and personal choices in enjoyment of; translating meaning of art work into objective terms; conceptual nature of; valid forms of ; as a unifier of man’s consciousness; how new subcategories arise; limits on freedom of stylization in; integration as the essence of; as man’s psycho-epistemological conditioner ; universality as important attribute of; as concretization of values ; and philosophy, relationship between; nonexistence of, today, as vital cultural movement; and attitudes of collectivist estheticians and intellectuals toward popular values in; as barometer of a culture; the end and the means in, as worthy of each other ; as the technology of the soul; as product of philosophical disciplines—metaphysics, epistemology, ethics ; see also Modern art
Astaire, Fred
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand): theme of; plot-theme of; quoted on conventional view of morality; quoted on man as a being of self-made soul
Avengers, The, successful British TV series
Ballet: as a system of dance ; essentials of its image of man; “modernization” of
Balzac, Honoré de, as Naturalist writer
Benefield, Barry, as popular-fiction writer
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), characterization in
Brown, Fredric, science fiction writing of
Byron, Lord, and “Byronic” view of existence
Camille (Dumas fils), and imitations of
Capitalism: destruction of, in politics;