The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943) PART ONE "Howard Roark laughed." [Opening Part I] "A house can have integrity, just like a person; and just as seldom." [Howard Roark] "I don't intend to build in order to have clients; I intend to have clients in...
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 i...
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 th...
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 pro...
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was Rand's first major literary success and its royalties and movie rights brought her fame and financial security. The book's title is a reference to Rand's statement that "man's ego is the fountainhead...
FINALLY, THERE'S A VEGETARIAN REFUGE FOR AYN RAND FANS. IT'S NOT EASY being an objectivist in the city. Ayn Rand lived here for 40 years and set her major novels in Manhattan, a place chockablock with misunderstood geniuses of the sort she celebrated....
The Fountainhead. An American Novel by Douglas J. Den Uyl Twayne Publishers * 1999 * 123 pages * $32.00 Reviewed by Tibor R. Machan "But of course, if individualism really is central to Americanism, then The Fountainhead is the quintessential...
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“If a girl puts down that her favorite book is The Fountainhead, there’s no way I’m going to contact her,” said a 30-year-old law student, quaffing a beer in the garden of an out-of-the-way Williamsburg bar called Lockinn, which features Scrabble-inlaid tables and a large...
Throughout her long career as popular author and philosophizer, Ayn Rand has concentrated on her individualist-heroes to formulate from their absolute dedication to their own self-interests the model for all mankind. In contrast to those who have seen in the economic crises of the twentieth century the waste of capitalism, Rand, obsessed with the fear of collectivist association, has seen universal salvation possible only through even more intensive laissez-faire capitalism. In so far as exposing Rand...
The Fountainhead (1943), railed against the dragon forces of boorish "collectivisim" and conventional aesthetic standards in this country as concerned citizen Rand determined to save America from "dying."… (p. 325) Howard Roark, an architect-genius, persists in designing great buildings without sacrificing an inch of his integrity to the inevitably compromising demands of professional peers, opinion-makers, the public taste, and his clients…. Throughout the book he ...
["The Fountainhead"] tells of exciting events and colorful characters. It is daring, not offensive. Its style would satisfy the most exacting professor, yet it has the vim and snap of the best journalese. It is frankly intellectual, and fearlessly discusses life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but it never sinks to the highbrow…. The central character is an architect, or, if you prefer, it is Architecture. But the novel is not a technical study in fictional form…. The real...
A comparison of the novel and film versions of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," epsecially the differences in how the story's heroine, Dominique Francon, is portrayed.
In Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead," the character traits of egocentrism and altruism are examined. Howard Roark is symbolized as a true egoist, one who has absolutely no desire to be involved in other peoples' business. Ellsworth Toohey is a prefect example of a second-hander, who uses the principle of altruism to demand men to live for others and place others above themselves.
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