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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Dagny Taggart desperately tries to protect her company from its decline in the face of the harassments and restrictions of an ever faster increasing bureaucracy of the state.
But it is in vain.
More and more of the leading scientists and industrialists are disappearing mysteriously without leaving any trace or message. The society of the US stands shortly before its total collapse. Famines and riots transform the country in to a single chaos. In the depressing atmosphere of decline, one hears a mysterious saying again and again, whose meaning and origin nobody seems to know: “Who is John Galt?”
Exciting until the last moment, in her magnum opus Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is put on stage in a comprehensive way. Which role does the mind play in the life of man? To this question there is no such answer that is more impressive than the one that is given in Atlas Shrugged!
Atlas Shrugged is more than just a monumental novel. Atlas Shrugged is a philosophically narrowly interwoven integration of metaphysics, ethics, economy and a touch of sex, which has given cause to the emergence and to the dynamic growth of a new philosophical movement.
The most popular and philosophically profound of all Rand novels is currently filmed by media titan Ted Turner. |
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Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
What kind of a human being one has to be to turn into a supporter of collectivism? What kind of mysterious psychology do these people have?
The Fountainhead is not only a very thrilling novel about the dramatic fight for independence of a talented architect, but also a psychological treatise on the soul of the collectivist.
Ayn Rand had her big breakthrough as writer with The Fountainhead and laid with it the foundation for what later should become her individualistic philosophy of “Objectivism.” Thrown out of university, mocked and derided by his colleagues, Howard Roark goes his own way, fighting for what he really believes in. He principally opposes the seductions of a high salary and the “respect” of his conventionally thinking milieu.
Have you ever wondered whether true individualism is possible in a world, in which popularity and adjustment to putative “friends” seems to be everything? In which the own independent intellect doesn’t count?
In The Fountainhead you learn that one can very well live in accordance to ones own ideals. Without giving away too much of the story, in the end, with Howard Roark personal integrity wins against the culture of mediocrity. Any Rand was inspired for the character of Howard Roark by the example of the world-famous and much-hated architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Along with Gary Cooper in the leading role, this timeless classic is also available as filming. |
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Ayn Rand We the Living
Which consequences did the Russian revolution really have?
In Soviet Russia Ayn Rand was able to experience for herself what it means when individual rights which are necessary for life, are declared suddenly as null and void by an alien power.
These experiences during and after the revolution moulded Ayn Rand forever.
It is more then natural that her first novel, We the Living, deals with these terrible experiences, which many western “friends of communism” never had the privilege to have experienced. The protagonist of the novel, Kira (played by Alida Valli), demonstrates, according to Ayn Rand’s own statement, strong autobiographical characteristics.
To and fro between two men important to her, she bravely opposes the injustice of the authoritarian state that wants to contest her right to her own life with all its power.
For Ayn Rand the making of the motion picture was the best adaption of all her works.
“It is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented, the background is not… The specific events of Kira’s life were not mine; her ideas, her convictions, her values, were and are.” – Ayn Rand |
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Ayn Rand Anthem
How does a society look like, in which collectivism took on its most extreme form, in which even the word “I” was removed from the language?
The person with the state-given standard name “Equality 7-2521” rebels against the negative ideology of this nightmare and starts the long time overdue fight for his identity as distinctive individual. |
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Ayn Rand The Early Ayn Rand
This collection of formerly unpublished short stories and plays from Ayn Rand's early work reflects the critical phase of her development from the youthful immigrant to the neo liberal author of ambitious philosophical works.
Besides the works from the 1920s and 1930s, some passages from The Fountainhead are also included. |
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Ayn Rand Night of January 16th
An internationally active, leading figure in commerce and industry with the reputation of a tough manager dies. Who has destroyed this brilliant man, letting his rise end so abruptly?
Was it murder?
In this interactive, for the theater written play the verdict is spoken by the audience, here, the reader. How it turns out is an expression of your sense of life, a central concept in Ayn Rand’s philosophy.
You can undergo the test,... if you dare it. |
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Samuel Merwin Calumet "K"
Calument “K” was Ayn Rand’s favorite novel for which she wrote a preface that is contained in this edition.
It deals on how the great love of a person to her work can enable her to solve all the seemingly insurmountable problems on the way to the goal.
It is a light but yet inspiring source of entertainment. |
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Chris Massie Love Letters
Ayn Rand wrote the film script for this romantic love story, which is obviously reflected in the style of the dialogs.
When a man adorns himself with the soul (here: the love letters) of another... |
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Andrew Bernstein CliffsNotes, Atlas Shrugged
The CliffsNotes are distributed by teachers as a support in American schools for analysis purposes of literary texts. CliffsNotes sums up topics and characters of the respective work and makes it possible to control ones progression by corresponding questions and answers.
How
well do you know Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged?
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Andrew Bernstein CliffsNotes, The Fountainhead
The CliffsNotes are distributed by teachers as a support in American schools for analysis purposes of literary texts. CliffsNotes sums up topics and characters of the respective work and makes it possible to control ones progression by corresponding questions and answers.
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Andrew Bernstein CliffsNotes, Anthem
The CliffsNotes are distributed by teachers as a support in American schools for analysis purposes of literary texts. CliffsNotes sums up topics and characters of the respective work and makes it possible to control ones progression by corresponding questions and answers.
How
well do you know Ayn Rand’s Anthem? Short literature
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