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"Chris Matthew Sciabarra (b. February 17, 1960) is scholar and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. The main topics in his books are Objectivism, Libertarianism, and dialectics particularly concerned with Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, and Murray Rothbard. He is a Visiting Scholar at New York University where he also earned his PhD and undergraduate degrees—the former under the supervision of Bertell Ollman. In 1999 he became the co-founder and co-editor of the biannual The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies and belongs to Liberty and Power, a group weblog at the History News Network. ..."

Biography

Author's Bio
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Writings

Dialectics and Liberty [PDF], The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 2005
Related Topics: Dialectics, Aristotle, Personal Responsibility, Ayn Rand
"What is dialectics? Dialectics is the art of context-keeping. It counsels us to study the object of our inquiry from a variety of perspectives and levels of generality, so as to gain a more comprehensive picture of it. That study often requires that we grasp the object in terms of the larger system within which it is situated, as well as its development across time ."
Herbert Spencer - Hero of the Day, The Daily Objectivist, 2000
Related Topic: Herbert Spencer
How I Became a Libertarian, 19 Dec 2002
"... [Rand's] was an articulated philosophy that gave me encouragement not to wallow in self-pity and dismay, but to make the most of my potentialities. ... as an undergraduate, I chose a triple major in economics, politics, and history ... I was a founding member of the NYU Chapter of Students for a Libertarian Society."

Interviews

Interview with Chris Matthew Sciabarra, by Peter Jaworski, Sense of Life Objectivists, 22 Apr 2002
"Context-keeping means that one must understand any political idea, like freedom, in terms of its philosophical, cultural, and historical preconditions. One must never drop the larger context: the fact that political freedom requires intellectual freedom and economic freedom, and that certain social-psychological and cultural preconditions are necessary if one is to sustain freedom."

Books Authored

Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, 1995
Related Topic: Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation, 2003
Related Topic: Ayn Rand
Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand
    by Chris Matthew Sciabarra (Editor, Introduction), 1999
Related Topic: Ayn Rand
Marx, Hayek, and Utopia, 1995
Related Topic: Friedrich A. Hayek
Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism, 2000
Related Topics: Libertarianism, Aristotle, Dialectics, Murray N. Rothbard