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Ayn Rand
bryanthelion:
Is any of her books worth reading?
Because I keep on hearing mixed reactions about her novels and I want to read them, but theres a chalk load of other books I need to read too!
Johnny C:
I couldn't get through the first five pages of Atlas Shrugged.
Mnementh:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 26 Aug 2007, 16:18 ---I have read a book noone else has heard of.
--- End quote ---
Surely you jest? Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are the bread and butter of late teenage wannabe-intellectuals everywhere.
tomselleck69:
to stare into the void of true obscurity, take a peek in the 39 cent bin at your local paperback shop.
KvP:
I've heard the books are a slog to read (haven't tried any myself) but her Objectivist ideology is a cornerstone of libertarian thought, as it is virulently individualistic and free-market capitalist, but bearing a special hatred of altruism borne of Rand's resentment towards her homeland of Soviet Russia. Even Hobbes made room for altruism in his social contracts (if another person is important to you, helping them can still be done with the self in mind), so Rand's views are pretty extreme, to say the least. She's pretty neglected for the most part by academics, but among hobbyists and rugged individualists out here in the American Midwest she's pretty popular. I personally find Objectivism repugnant.
She's actually pretty well represented in computer games, in Bioshock (the whole game is a big critique/imagining of an Objectivist society, and Andrew Ryan is a former soviet citizen and zealous capitalist, just like Rand) and also in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 (Where Kreia the teacher stands in for Rand and Sith philosophy is basically Objectivist) Angelina Jolie is also working on a film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, last I heard.
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