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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I don't think anybody has actually said she 'shouldn't' be studied, or would stop anybody from doing so, but I do think a vast majority of us are arguing that her work has little weight to it, or interest beyond a specific clustering. The consensus on Rand seems to lean towards her being a low-rent philosopher with a rabid, if small and geographically consistent following. In most of Europe, and I would guess the East Coast of the US also, definitely in Canada, Ayn Rand and her works are deemed unimportant and irrelevant. She's not considered worthwhile in literature or philosophical circles. Her theories are weak sauce to most academics and her fiction is too dull for the vast majority of casual readers.
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What he said. Nicely summed up.