With adoring fans, fiery critics and very few in between, why does Atlas Shrugged evoke such impassioned responses? Because it grapples with the fundamental problems of human existence and presents radically new answers.<\/p>\n
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rands last novel, is a dramatization of her unique vision of existence and of mans highest potential. Twelve years in the writing, it is her masterwork.<\/p>\n
Is the pursuit of profit a noble enterprise or the root of all evil? Is sexual passion an exalted spiritual virtue or a dirty, animalistic vice? Is reason an absolute or is faith an alternative source of truth? Is self-esteem possible or are we consigned to a life of self-doubt and guilt? In what kind of society can an individual prosper, and in what kind of society is he doomed to the opposite fate?<\/p>\n
Rands worldview emerges in the compelling plot turns of a mystery story, centered on the question Who is John Galt?<\/p>\n
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