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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
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Biography EssayAyn Rand's novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) develop her philosophy of objectivism, which challenged conventional values by emphasizing laissez-faire capitalism, ...
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Ayn Rand (1905-1982)began to form her philosophy of rational self interest, which she called "objectivism," at an early age. This view became the basis for her immensely popular writings, which includ...
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Ayn Rand has been both revered and disparaged as the author of controversial novels, essays, and other works that espouse her philosophy of Objectivism. A Russian-born American citizen, Rand celebrate...
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Ayn Rand's novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) manifest a development of her own philosophy of Objectivism, which challenged conventional values by emphasizing laissez-faire capi...
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Ayn Rand, one of the few systematic philosophers who have used imaginative literature to develop their ideas, was a novelist and the founder of the Objectivist school of philosophy. She was an advocat...
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Critical Essay by Mimi R. Gladstein
[Atlas Shrugged] is not generally considered to be philosophically feminist. In fact, it may not be on anyone's reading list for Women's Courses, exce...
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Critical Essay by Terry Teachout
If your definition of a "modern classic" is a book which still sells briskly in both soft- and hard-cover editions a quarter-century after its publicatio...
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Critical Essay by John Chamberlain
["Atlas Shrugged"] is a work of fiction, a piece of inspired and thoroughly exciting story-telling that drags only in some of the lengthier speeches wh...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Chapin Blackman
In a statement published as a postscript to "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand has defined her philosophy, "in essence," as "the conce...
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Critical Essay by Granville Hicks
["Atlas Shrugged"] comes among us as a demonstrative act rather than as a literary work. Its size seems an expression of the author's determinati...
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Critical Essay by Helen Beal Woodward
["Atlas Shrugged"] is the equivalent of a fifteenth-century morality play. Everyman, personified by Dagny Taggert, the strong-minded lady Operating ...
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Critical Essay by Mimi R. Gladstein
