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, exc...
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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 publicati...
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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 w...
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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 conc...
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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 determinat...
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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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Almost immediately following the fire at the Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero in August that left two firefighters dead, a harsh light began to shine on a Bronx-based subcontractor with no exp...
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gasp) socialize with their fellow New Yorkers. These hipsters tend to congregate in the southwest corner of the pool courtyard, isolating themselves from the splashing local families. They read tr...
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On the evening of March 29, a long line of Ayn Rand fans passed through various security checks before taking an elevator up to the fortified fourth floor of the Kimmel Center for University Life a...
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Wanted: A demolition company willing to tear down a building contaminated with asbestos that some say is the most difficult project in the most difficult construction city in the world.With buildin...
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When faced, at the movies, with obnoxious fellow audience members who are talking or kicking the back of your chair, you have two basic options (unless, of course, their banter is better than the d...
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When faced, at the movies, with obnoxious fellow audience members who are talking or kicking the back of your chair, you have two basic options (unless, of course, their banter is better than the d...
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When faced, at the movies, with obnoxious fellow audience members who are talking or kicking the back of your chair, you have two basic options (unless, of course, their banter is better than the d...
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Critical Essay by Mimi R. Gladstein
Fire Illuminates Objectivist Cult of Galt
