Ayn Rand's Unique and Enduring Contributions to Literature (MP3 download) Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand's Unique and Enduring Contributions to Literature (MP3 download) Leonard PeikoffBy Shoshana Milgram Drawing on the full range of Ayn Rand's work in fiction (including her earliest ideas, her writings about literature and the post Atlas Shrugged novels she planned), this lecture shows how Ayn Rand dramatizesin a stylized universepowerful conflicts that actually matter and make sense. Her technique of "writing in tiers" allows her to provide significant values to all readers, while offering the greatest rewards to the readers with

Motivated by the possibility of trade with the Orient

and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany)

We will also explore the personal benefits to you

400 pages)

The lectures include an analysis of Ayn Rand's philosophic methodology

showed how conscientious integration is essential to achieving and maintaining objectivity in a legal system

from a twenty-one-year-old Russian immigrant struggling to master English to the brilliant prose stylist she was to become in her mature work

Capitalism rests on a certain philosophic base

Far from representing the rejection of morality

Peikoff's brilliant answers to them

The listener will learn how Knox met Joshua Humphreys in Philadelphia and together they championed Humphreys' design of the 44-gun frigate to create the first ships of the United States Navy

from her earliest works to Atlas Shrugged