Rand, Ayn (Vol. 3) | Rand, Ayn 1905–
Rand, Ayn 1905–
A Russian-born novelist, essayist, and playwright now living in America and writing in English, Miss Rand builds her novels around strongly-articulated philosophical arguments. Her objectivist credo is well known to readers of her popular novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 15-16.)
[For] Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged there can be no satisfaction, properly defined, outside of the true business world, that world which is based upon unconditional free enterprise, and a full-blown laissez-faire individualism. And Miss Rand has a carefully constructed philosophy to support her position, which is a curious blend of the values of the "open decision" and their outright denial. The highest good for her is the life of the individual, and the virtuous man will not surrender that life without a fight. As with Jaspers and Heidegger, Miss Rand suggests that human death...
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