Introduction: Dedicating—and Rededicating

CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA, website: http://www.chrismatthewsciabarra.com, blog: http://notablog.net, received his PhD, with distinction, in political theory, philosophy, and methodology from New York University. He is the author of the “Dialectics and Liberty Trilogy,” which includes Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (State University of New York Press, 1995), Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995; expanded second edition, 2013), and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). He is also co-editor, with Mimi Reisel Gladstein, of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), co-editor, with Roger E. Bissell and Edward W. Younkins, of The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom (Lexington Books, 2019), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (1999–present).