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Ayn Rand ( 2 February 1905 – 6 March 1982 ) was an Objectivist philosopher and author. This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the...


Biography

Name: Ayn Rand
Variant Name: Alice Zinovievna Rosenbaum
Birth Date: February 2, 1905
Death Date: March 6, 1982
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russia
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, screenwriter, philosopher

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Biography of Ayn Rand
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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 advocate of realism in epistemology, rational self-interest...
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Biography of Ayn Rand
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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 celebrated laissez-faire capitalism in her writings, arguing...
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Biography of Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand's novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) develop her philosophy of objectivism, which challenged conventional values by emphasizing laissez-faire capitalism, individualism, and opposition to altruism. After her novels, Rand...
 


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Objectivism/Ayn Rand Summary
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Few philosophers or philosophies can claim the public recognition and "fan" following of Ayn Rand (1905-1982) and her philosophy, Objectivism. Espoused in several novels and in countless essays and speeches, Rand's Objectivism...
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Rand, Ayn Summary
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One of the twentieth century's best known novelists and philosophers, Ayn Rand (1905–1982), who was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on February 2, and died in New York City on March 6, celebrated the individual in dramatic stories with...
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Ayn Rand Information
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Ayn Rand (IPA: /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher.[1] She is...


News and Journals
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Ideas on Liberty
Ayn Rand and Business
03/01/2003: 796 words, approx. 3 pages
Ayn Rand and business by Donna Greiner and Theodore Kinni Texere [bullet ] 2001 [bullet ] 209 pages [bullet ] $22.95 hardcover What sort of book is this? Perhaps the best answer is to say that an alternate title could be:...
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Free Inquiry
Was Ayn Rand a humanist?
06/22/1994: 2,785 words, approx. 9 pages
Ayn Rand is the founder of the philosophical movement which came to be known as objectivism. Ayn Rand blamed Christianity's altruism for distracting the US from capitalist objectives, which Rand considered as all-important. It is because of Rand's hatred for Christianity that secular humanists...
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The New York Observer
Fire Illuminates Objectivist Cult of Galt
8/31/2007: 1,020 words, approx. 3 pages
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 experience in demolition work, repeated safety violations, hints of ties to the mafia,...
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AP News
Today in history - March 14
3/14/2007: 554 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Wednesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2007. There are 292 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.On this date:In 1900, Congress ratified...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Nathaniel Branden
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The projection of "things as they might be and ought to be" names the essence of Ayn Rand's concept of literature. In the wave of Naturalism that has engulfed the literature of the twentieth century, her novels are an outstanding exception. They are at once a continuation of the Romantic tradition and a significant departure from the mainstream of that tradition: she is a Romantic Realist. "Romantic"—because her work is concerned with values, with the essential, the...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen
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Perhaps it is fair to say that if there is one message Ayn Rand the theorist would have wanted to leave us it is, philosophy matters! The recent death of Ayn Rand provides the occasion for us to recall the importance of this message. In the heat of contemporary social and political debates we often forget to consider basic principles. The writings of Ayn Rand will always be with us as a reminder that pragmatism and expediency are ultimately self-defeating. And it is in this spirit of a concern for basic que...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Cook
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Miss Rand is a profoundly poor writer. To say that her plots are absurdly tendentious, her characters no more than wooden puppets, and her diction utterly without grace or beauty (all of which is quite true) is to give no real idea of the quality of her novels. They are completely bad, from conception to expression. All her writing might quite properly be called fantastic. It is not simply that two of her four novels deal with the future,… but rather an atmosphere common to all which is so charged wi...
 
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Ayn Rand
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Essay provides a discussion of the novel "Ayn Rand."
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Ayn Rand vs. John Steinbeck
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Comparing the two great intellectuals views on the world and the way it should be run.


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