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Since its publication in 1957 Atlas Shrugged, the philosophical and
artistic climax of Ayn Rand's novels, has never been out of print
and has received enormous critical attention becoming one of the
most influential books ever published, impacting on a variety of
disciplines including philosophy, literature, economics, business,
and political science among others. More than a great novel, Atlas
Shrugged is an abstract conceptual, and symbolic work that expounds
a radical philosophy, presenting a view of man and man's
relationship to existence and manifesting the essentials of an
entire philosophical system - metaphysics, epistemology, politics
and ethics. Celebrating the fiftieth year of Atlas Shrugged's
publication, this companion is an exploration of this monumental
work of literature. Contributions have been specially commissioned
from a diversity of eminent scholars who admire and have been
influenced by the book, the included essays analyzing the novel's
integrating elements of theme, plot and characterization from many
perspectives and from various levels of meaning.
Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees
in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other
traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes
articles from a number of individuals from a range of different
disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism
and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating
literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have
a larger claim upon people's literary consciousness. In addition,
they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the
complexities of a capitalist culture. This collection of essays
provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of
fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works
selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical,
political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives
that have been found over time in American society. The novels and
plays analyzed include high literature, mid-range literature,
popular literature, ancient epics, grand narratives, hero tales,
masterpieces, ideological texts, science fiction, and more. There
are a great many works of literature waiting to be read and studied
by business and economically-minded individuals from many different
viewpoints and fields of study. This volume provides a space to
explore a wide range of fictional works and opinions about them.
Fiction, including novels, plays, and films, can be a powerful
force in educating students and employees in ways that lectures,
textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching
approaches cannot. Works of fiction can address a range of issues
and topics, provide detailed real-life descriptions of the
organizational contexts in which workers find themselves, and tell
interesting, engaging, and memorable stories that are richer and
more likely to stay with the reader or viewer longer than lectures
and other teaching approaches. For these reasons, Exploring
Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film analyzes
25 films, novels, and plays that engage the theories, concepts, and
issues most relevant to the business world. Through critical
examinations of works such as Atlas Shrugged and Wall Street,
Younkins shows how fiction is a powerful teaching tool to sensitize
business students without business experience and to educate and
train managers in real businesses.
This book explores Ayn Rand's monumental work, Atlas Shrugged,
which presents a revolutionary new philosophical system in the form
of an inspiring novel. Edward W. Younkins explains how Rand's
masterwork is one of the most influential books ever published,
impacting a variety of disciplines including philosophy,
literature, economics, business, and political science, among
others. Exploring Atlas Shrugged analyzes the novel's integrating
elements of theme, plot, and characterization from many
perspectives and on many levels of meaning. The chapters in this
book are accessible and rewarding, offering fresh insights to both
new readers and to scholars who have studied Rand's masterpiece
over many years. It is also a valuable resource for teachers and
students who use Atlas Shrugged in their classes. Such a rich and
complex novel warrants and rewards additional study and critical
analysis. The author explains how Atlas Shrugged expounds a radical
philosophy, presenting a view of man and man's relationship to
existence and manifesting the essentials of an entire philosophical
system of metaphysics, epistemology, politics, and others.
Fiction, including novels, plays, and films, can be a powerful
force in educating students and employees in ways that lectures,
textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching
approaches cannot. Works of fiction can address a range of issues
and topics, provide detailed real-life descriptions of the
organizational contexts in which workers find themselves, and tell
interesting, engaging, and memorable stories that are richer and
more likely to stay with the reader or viewer longer than lectures
and other teaching approaches. For these reasons, Exploring
Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film analyzes
25 films, novels, and plays that engage the theories, concepts, and
issues most relevant to the business world. Through critical
examinations of works such as Atlas Shrugged and Wall Street,
Younkins shows how fiction is a powerful teaching tool to sensitize
business students without business experience and to educate and
train managers in real businesses.
This book provides a framework for a potential paradigm of human
flourishing and happiness in a free society. It is an exploratory
attempt to construct an understanding from various disciplines and
to integrate them into a clear, consistent, coherent, and
systematic whole. Holding that there are essential interconnections
among objective ideas, the book emphasizes the compatibility of
Aristotelianism, Austrian economics, and Ayn Rand's Objectivism. It
argues that particular ideas from these areas can be integrated
into a paradigm of human flourishing and happiness based on the
nature of man and the world. Such a paradigm will help people to
understand the world and to survive and flourish in it.
This book is constructed around great thinkers of the past and
present who have been influential in developing the philosophy of
freedom. Its main purpose is to provide a survey and overview of
the ideas of leading individual philosophers and economists of
capitalism who have contributed to developing what might be called
the classical liberal or libertarian worldview. Champions of a Free
Society endeavors to provide a guide to political and economic
thinking about the desirability and construction of a free society
that is intelligible to the educated layperson. Edward Younkins
provides an historical perspective of the pursuit of political and
economic truth. The goal of this book is to present the development
of ideas in language that permits generally educated readers to
understand and appreciate their significance. The book's
chronological approach considers the thinkers and their ideas as
they have developed over the course of time. There is much
unfulfilled illuminative potential to be found in the ideas of the
past and Younkins successfully integrates the ideas of past and
current thinkers into a logical contemporary worldview.
This book is constructed around great thinkers of the past and
present who have been influential in developing the philosophy of
freedom. Its main purpose is to provide a survey and overview of
the ideas of leading individual philosophers and economists of
capitalism who have contributed to developing what might be called
the classical liberal or libertarian worldview. Champions of a Free
Society endeavors to provide a guide to political and economic
thinking about the desirability and construction of a free society
that is intelligible to the educated layperson. Edward Younkins
provides an historical perspective of the pursuit of political and
economic truth. The goal of this book is to present the development
of ideas in language that permits generally educated readers to
understand and appreciate their significance. The book's
chronological approach considers the thinkers and their ideas as
they have developed over the course of time. There is much
unfulfilled illuminative potential to be found in the ideas of the
past and Younkins successfully integrates the ideas of past and
current thinkers into a logical contemporary worldview.
Philosophers of Capitalism provides an interdisciplinary approach,
attempting to discover the feasibility of an integration of
Austrian Economics and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. In the
first section of the book, Edward W. Younkins supplies essays
presenting the essential ideas of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises,
and Ayn Rand. Building upon these essential ideas, the second
portion of the book brings together scholarly perspectives from top
academics, analyzing Menger, von Mises, and Rand. The third and
final section of the book looks toward the future and the
possibility of combining and extending the insights of these
champions of a free society, emphasizing how the errors, omissions,
and oversights made by one theorist can effectively be negated or
compensated for by integrating insights from one or more of the
others. Featuring a list of recommended reading for the major ideas
and theorists discussed, Philosophers of Capitalism is an essential
book for both philosophers and economists.
In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and
accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments
for capitalism. Drawn from over a decade of business school
teaching, Younkins's work offers the student of political economy
and the educated layperson a clear, systematic treatment of the
philosophical concepts that underpin the idea of capitalism and the
business, legal, and political institutions that impact commercial
enterprises. Divided into seven parts, the work discusses
capitalism and morality; individuals, communities, and the role of
the state; private and corporate ownership; entrepreneurship and
technological progress; law, justice, and corporate governance; and
the obstacles to a free market and limited government.
This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of
liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method-that is, a
mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of
philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the
sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of
disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply
explicitly dialectical tools to a classical liberal / libertarian
analysis of social and cultural issues. In its conjoining of a
dialectical method, typically associated with the socialist left,
to a defense of individual liberty, typically associated with the
libertarian right, this anthology challenges contemporary attitudes
on both ends of the political spectrum. Though this conjunction of
dialectics and liberty has been explored before in several works,
including a trilogy of books written by one of our coeditors (Chris
Matthew Sciabarra), this volume will be the first one of its kind
to bring together accomplished scholars in political science,
economics, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, law, history,
education, and rhetoric.
This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of
liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method-that is, a
mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of
philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the
sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of
disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply
explicitly dialectical tools to a classical liberal / libertarian
analysis of social and cultural issues. In its conjoining of a
dialectical method, typically associated with the socialist left,
to a defense of individual liberty, typically associated with the
libertarian right, this anthology challenges contemporary attitudes
on both ends of the political spectrum. Though this conjunction of
dialectics and liberty has been explored before in several works,
including a trilogy of books written by one of our coeditors (Chris
Matthew Sciabarra), this volume will be the first one of its kind
to bring together accomplished scholars in political science,
economics, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, law, history,
education, and rhetoric.
Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This
volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings.
The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all
of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas.
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