Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

Robert Mayhew is professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University. His authored books include Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood, The Female in Aristotle's Biology: Reason or Rationalization, and Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Republic; his edited collections include Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of her Q&A.

• 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. The Part and Chapter Headings of Atlas ShruggedChapter 3 Chapter 2. Who Was John Galt? The Creation of Ayn Rand's Ultimate Ideal ManChapter 4 Chapter 3. The Spirit of Francisco d'Anconia: The Development of His CharacterizationChapter 5 Chapter 4. A Note on Francisco's AncestryChapter 6 Chapter 5. Working for Ayn Rand: Selections from Facets of Ayn RandChapter 7 Chapter 6 Publishing Atlas ShruggedChapter 8 Chapter 7. The Atlas Shrugged ReviewsChapter 9 Chapter 8. Reply to Whittaker ChambersChapter 10 Chapter 9. Atlas Shrugged and the Metaphysics of ValuesChapter 11 Chapter 10. Atlas Shrugged as the Culmination of the Romantic NovelChapter 12 Chapter 11. A Tale of Two NovelsChapter 13 Chapter 12. Adapting Atlas Shrugged to FilmChapter 14 Chapter 13. Atlas Shrugged on the Role of the Mind in Man's ExistenceChapter 15 Chapter 14. Ayn Rand's Ethics: From The Fountainhead to Atlas ShruggedChapter 16 Chapter 15. No Tributes to Caesar: Good or Evil in Atlas ShruggedChapter 17 Chapter 16. The Businessmen's Crucial Role: Material Men of the MindChapter 18 Chapter 17. The Traits of Business Heroes in Atlas ShruggedChapter 19 Chapter 18. "Humanity's Darkest Evil": The Lethal Destructiveness of Non-Objective LawChapter 20 Chapter 19. The Role of Galt's Speech in Atlas ShruggedChapter 21 Chapter 20. Galt's Speech in Five Sentences (and Forty Questions)Chapter 22 Chapter 21. Discovering Atlantis: Atlas Shrugged's Demonstration of a New Moral PhilosophyChapter 23 Chapter 22. A Note on Dagny's "Final Choice"

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