All Posts Tagged With: "The Fountainhead"
Ayn Rand: A Centennial Appreciation
This essay is derived from a more comprehensive paper written for the forthcoming anthology, edited by Edward Younkins, Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Philosophical and Literary Masterpiece. Born in Russia on February 2, 1905, the late novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand would eventually emigrate to the United States and make an indelible mark on intellectual history. [...]
1Feb2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fountainhead: An American Novel by Douglas J. Den Uyl
Twayne Publishers • 1999 • 123 pages • $32.00 “But of course, if individualism really is central to Americanism, then The Fountainhead is the quintessential American novel.” This is the concluding sentence of Douglas Den Uyl’s wonderful discussion of Ayn Rand’s great novel, which has been at the center of the resurgence of interest in [...]
1Mar2000 | Tibor R. Machan | 90 comments | ContinuedAyn Rand: The Russian Radical
Mr. Brown is a freelance writer. Much to my surprise the author of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, a comprehensive new study of Rand’s thought and its genesis in Russian culture, has persuaded me that something called “dialectics” is integral to Ayn Rand’s philosophic approach and crucial to its success. Russian Radical is a different [...]
1Mar1996 | David M. Brown | 0 comments | Continued-
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