Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
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- Full Title: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion
- Author(s): Edited by Edward W. Younkins
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
- Publication Type: Academic
- ISBN: 0-7546-5533-4 (hardcover), 0-7546-5549-0 (paperback)
- Description: This is a collection of essays about Rand's most famous novel.
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Since this is a collection with multiple authors, the authors of each essay are indicated in parentheses after the essay title.
Part 1: An Overview
- Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand's philosophical and literary masterpiece (Edward W. Younkins)
- Atlas Shrugged: manifesto for a new radicalism (Chris Matthew Sciabarra)
- The Aristotelian significance of the section titles of Atlas Shrugged (Douglas B. Rasmussen)
- Various levels of meaning in the chapter titles of Atlas Shrugged (Fred Seddon)
- Some structural aspects of Atlas Shrugged (Lester H. Hunt)
- Table of contents for Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (Hans Gregory Schantz)
Part 2: Philosophy
- Atlas Shrugged's moral principle of the sanction of the victim (Tibor R. Machan)
- Forced to rule: Atlas Shrugged as a response to Plato's Republic (Roderick T. Long)
- The role and essence of John Galt's speech in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (G. Stolyarov II)
- Galt's Gulch as a paradigm of Aristotle's Eudaimonia (Michelle Fram Cohen)
Part 3: Literary Aspects
- Ayn Rand's cinematic eye (Mimi Reisel Gladstein)
- Atlas Shrugged as a science fiction novel (Jeff Riggenbach)
- Ayn Rand's recasting of ancient myths in Atlas Shrugged (Kirsti Minsaas)
Part 4: Aesthetics
- Atlas and art (Ronald F. Lipp)
- My music: why it's romantic, and why I write it that way (Roger E. Bissell)
- Fuel for the soul (Russell Madden)
Part 5: Political Economy
- The economics of Atlas Shrugged (Peter J. Boettke)
- Atlas, Ayn and anarchy: A is A is A (Larry J. Sechrest)
- The businessman and Ayn Rand: Galt's Gulch in real time (Spencer Heath MacCallum)
- Ayn Rand's Atlantis as a free market economy (Sam Bostaph)
- Atlas Shrugged and public choice: the obvious parallels (Bryan Caplan)
- Francisco d'Anconia on money: a socio-economic analysis (Steven Horwitz)
- Atlas Shrugged's case for human productivity (Jack Criss)
Part 6: Human Relationships
- Dagny and me (Karen Michalson)
- Atlas Shrugged: the dream of every woman (Joy Bushnell)
- Friendship in Atlas Shrugged (Peter Saint-Andre)
- Romantic love in Atlas Shrugged (Jennifer L. Iannolo)
- Beyond the 'stillborn aspiration': virtuous sexuality in Atlas Shrugged (Susan Love Brown)
Part 7: Characterization
- The price of passivity: Hank Rearden's mind-body dichotomy (Virginia Murr)
- Hugh Akston, the role of teaching, and the lessons of Atlas Shrugged (Ken Schoolland and Stuart K. Hayashi)
- When the train left the station, with two lights on behind: the Eddie Willers story (Robert Campbell)
- In the beginning was the thought: the story of the wet nurse (Jomana Krupinski)
- The destruction from the nihilism train: the Cherryl Brooks story (Jennifer J. Rhodes)
- The Robert Stadler story: the moral fall of a man who knew better (Edward W. Younkins)
Part 8: History
- Atlas and 'the Bible': Rand's debt to Isabel Paterson (Stephen Cox)
- A note on Rand's Americanism (Douglas J. Den Uyl)
- The non fictional Robert Stadlers: traitors to liberty (Walter Block)
- Atlas Shrugging throughout history and modern life (Stuart K. Hayashi)
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