![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To focus solely on what she says about profit and selfishness is to neglect her deeper ethic of fidelity to objective standards of right and wrong. It seems odd in a writer famous for her paeans to capitalism and profit. The Fountainhead is an entire novel about an artist who refuses to sell out. I tried to read it in college, gave up, and finally read it (along with Atlas Shrugged) as a graduate student. This is to say that you have missed what is plainly there.Ĭonsider The Fountainhead. This isnt to say that theres a subtlety you missed in between the long speeches and the rough-bordering-on-violent sex. ![]() To claim that she only cared about money and said that people should only care about money is to show that you either havent read her books or at least havent understood them. Doesnt she know there is more to life than money? selfishness? The reckless and greedy pursuit of gain as an ideal? How awful. And why wouldnt she be? She wrote, in addition to her fiction, books titled The Virtue of Selfishness and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Rand is a hero in many minds and a villain in many more. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigatesor fails to navigatethe New York architecture scene. On this day in 1943, Ayn Rands The Fountainhead was published. Single Issues of The Independent Review.Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development. ![]()
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