Objectivism/Ayn Rand
Few philosophers or philosophies can claim the public recognition and "fan" following of Ayn Rand (1905-1982) and her philosophy, Objectivism. Espoused in several no...
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Rand, Ayn
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 ...
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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 Gore Vidal
[The following essay was originally published in Esquire, July, 1961.]
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. (p. 261)
This odd...
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Critical Essay by Nathaniel Branden
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 t...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Cook
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 o...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen
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 re...
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Two great intellectuals of the early twentieth century wrote works of fiction that have become classics; they espoused polar-opposite views, however, of how society best functions. Their battle betwee...
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When interviewed by Nathaniel Janss, Howard Roark explains to Nathaniel Janss that most people do not want reason on their side. He explains, "It's not you, Mr. Janss. It's the way most people feel. T...
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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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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 inventio...
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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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An Indonesian mother bemoaned the availability of guns in the United States after learning her son was among those killed in a school massacre, while South Koreans expressed shame and shock that on...
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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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When he deigned last month to include Ron Paul in his Sunday morning show, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos told the Republican presidential candidate that he’d bet eve...
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THE AGE OF TURBULENCE: ADVENTURES IN A NEW WORLDBy Alan Greenspan The Penguin Press, 531 pages, $35
“Garbo talks.” That was the advertising slogan for Greta Garbo’s first talking ...
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Objectivism/Ayn Rand
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Critical Essay by Gore Vidal
Ayn Rand vs. John Steinbeck
Fire Illuminates Objectivist Cult of Galt
