TNforPaul45
04-10-2011, 01:23 PM
For those of you who have not ever read Atlas Shrugged, but you plan to, or you are curious about the upcoming movie adaptation and have not read the book yet, but are interested in the overall political, philosophical, and objectivist-libertarian themes and implications in both, Dr. Edward Younkins at Wheeling Jesuit University has a great paper on the overall Unity of these themes in the book, recently published in the journal Libertarian Papers. It's a longer read, but it's way shorter than the book, and will get you up to speed, intellectually, on the implications that you can take away from the book/movie.
Be warned: There be spoilers here:
http://libertarianpapers.org/2011/5-younkins-unity-and-integration-in-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged/
By including only that which is essential, Rand illustrates the
connections between metaphysical abstractions and their concrete
expressions. Atlas Shrugged is a feat of complex structural integration. The
author carefully selected the details with no event, character, line or dialogue,
or description included that does not further and reinforce the theme of the
importance of reason. Nothing is thrown in arbitrarily. Rand was aware of
the specific purpose of every chapter, paragraph, and sentence and could
state a reason for every word and punctuation mark in the novel (Rand, 4).
Edward W. Younkins, “Unity and Integration in Ayn Rand’s
Atlas Shrugged,” Libertarian Papers 3, 5 (2011). ONLINE AT: libertarianpapers.org.
:collins:!
Be warned: There be spoilers here:
http://libertarianpapers.org/2011/5-younkins-unity-and-integration-in-ayn-rands-atlas-shrugged/
By including only that which is essential, Rand illustrates the
connections between metaphysical abstractions and their concrete
expressions. Atlas Shrugged is a feat of complex structural integration. The
author carefully selected the details with no event, character, line or dialogue,
or description included that does not further and reinforce the theme of the
importance of reason. Nothing is thrown in arbitrarily. Rand was aware of
the specific purpose of every chapter, paragraph, and sentence and could
state a reason for every word and punctuation mark in the novel (Rand, 4).
Edward W. Younkins, “Unity and Integration in Ayn Rand’s
Atlas Shrugged,” Libertarian Papers 3, 5 (2011). ONLINE AT: libertarianpapers.org.
:collins:!