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Review title: If this is the best that can be said for Rand...
Product review: ...then she can be safely written off. Luckily, it isn't. Peikoff's presentation has all of the weaknesses, and none of the strengths, of Rand's own. Unlike Rand, it is unimaginative, devoid of creativity, and dull. Like Rand, it involves ambiguity, equivocation, absence of definition, arbitrary and unclear distinctions, the erasing or ignoring of distinctions arbitrarily and unclearly, etc. His tone throughout is one of uncritical worship, and this is the last thing that Rand's philosophy needs.Rand was a valuable and insightful intellectual, though hardly 'the greatest philosopher of all time' or even one of the top philosophers of this century. To gain the full value of her work, we need criticism and scepticism; we need precision and attention both to details and to context. Peikoff is a mouthpiece, not a thinker. His anti-scholarship is the paradigm of what those interested in the fulfillment of Rand's vision must avoid.
