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Atlas Shrugged
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
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Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's sprawling 1957 novel and the fullest statement of her philosophy of Objectivism. In a near-future where the most productive minds go on strike against a society that exploits them, Rand dramatizes her belief in reason, individualism, and the moral right to one's own achievement. Adored and attacked in equal measure, it has never stopped provoking.
About the author — Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905 to 1982), born in Russia and emigrated to America, was a novelist and philosopher who founded Objectivism. She championed rational self-interest, individual rights, and laissez-faire capitalism in both fiction and essays.
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What is Atlas Shrugged about in a nutshell?
A society that punishes its most able creators, until they withdraw their talent in protest. Around that plot Rand argues for reason, individualism, and the morality of self-interest.
What is the main message of Atlas Shrugged?
That achievement is moral and that individuals have the right to live for their own sake, not as a means to others' ends. It is Rand's case for Objectivism in story form.
Why is Atlas Shrugged so controversial?
Because its celebration of self-interest and unregulated capitalism, and its dismissal of altruism, strike many readers as liberating and many others as cold. Few books divide opinion so sharply.