Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged write by Robert Mayhew. This book was released on 2009-04-16. Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics, surpassing related writings in breadth and depth of analysis. The historical essays cover the writing of Atlas Shrugged, its publication history, and its reception. The literary essays cover analysis of the novel's plot, theme, and characterization; comparisons with other works, such as the novels of Hugo, Dostoyevsky, and Joyce; and the proper approach to adapting Atlas Shrugged to film. The philosophical essays cover a vast range of topics, including the place of Galt's speech in the novel, the role of the mind in human life, and the evil of non-objective law. Some of the essays make use of previously unpublished material from the Ayn Rand Archives.
Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged write by Robert Mayhew. This book was released on 2009. Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics, surpassing related writings in breadth and depth of analysis. The historical essays cover the writing of Atlas Shrugged, its publication history, and its reception. The literary essays cover analysis of the novel's plot, theme, and characterization; comparisons with other works, such as the novels of Hugo, Dostoevsky, and Joyce; and the proper approach to adapting Atlas Shrugged to film. The philosophical essays cover a vast range of topics, including the place of John Galt's speech in the novel, the role of the mind in human life, and the evil of non-objective law. Some of the essays make use of previously unpublished material from the Ayn Rand Archives. Book jacket.
Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living"
Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living" write by Robert Mayhew. This book was released on 2012-02-16. Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. But Rand's first novel, We the Living, a lesser-known but no less important book, offers an early form of the author's nascent philosophy—the philosophy Rand later called Objectivism. In the second edition, Robert Mayhew once again brings together pre-eminent scholars of Rand's writing. The edition includes three new chapters, as well as an epilogue by renowned Rand-scholar Leonard Peikoff. In part a history of We the Living, from its earliest drafts to the Italian film later based upon it, Mayhew's collection goes on to explore the enduring significance of Rand's first novel as a work both of philosophy and of literature. For Ayn Rand scholars and fans alike, this enhanced second edition is a compelling examination of a novel that set the tone for some of the most influential philosophical literature to follow.
The Voice of Reason
The Voice of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Voice of Reason write by Ayn Rand. This book was released on 1990-06-30. The Voice of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand's life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff's epilogue, "My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir," which answers the question "What was Ayn Rand really like?" Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand's later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.
Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem
Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem write by Robert Mayhew. This book was released on 2005. Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently in a revised form in the United States in 1946, Anthem investigates the importance of the ego and freedom, and the individual against the state. Editor Robert Mayhew has collected a variety of essays dealing with such topics including: the history behind the novella's creation, publication, and reception; its connection to other anti-utopian novels; and, the significance of ego and freedom, which it portrays and defends. This book is important to philosophers as well as readers looking to gain a better understanding of Ayn Rand and Anthem.
