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Male. Occupation. Engineer, inventor, philosopher, laborer. John Galt ( / ɡɔːlt /) is a character in Ayn Rand 's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer.
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Sep 28, 2023 · The origin of the name “John Galt” is not entirely clear. In her biographical interviews, she specifically disavowed any connection with her friend, John Gall, an attorney involved in the defense of business and businessmen. (Several of Ayn Rand’s letters to John Gall are included in Berliner, Letters of Ayn Rand.)
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Mar 15, 2024 · March 15, 2024. “Who is John Galt?”. The question is the first line of Ayn Rand’s most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged. Today you might see the question on signs held by political protesters, who recognized in Rand’s novel a warning of what happens when people abandon reason, and cede freedom to an overreaching government.
Dec 7, 2023 · Expanded second edition, eds. H. Binswanger and L. Peikoff (New York: Meridian, 1990), 63. With the kind permission of Wiley-Blackwell, this essay draws on material from my chapter “Galt’s Speech and the Philosophy of Objectivism” that will appear in Ayn Rand: A Companion to Her Works and Thought, Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri, eds. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
1983. OCLC. 412355486. Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. [1] She described the theme of Atlas Shrugged as "the role of man's mind in existence" and it includes elements of science ...
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- Ayn Rand
- October 10, 1957
- Random House
Apr 15, 2014 · His appearance on John Stossel’s ABC/TV special "Greed" in 1998 stirred a national debate on the ethics of capitalism. An internationally-recognized expert on Objectivism, he has lectured widely on Ayn Rand, her ideas, and her works. He was a consultant to the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, and editor of Atlas Shrugged: The Novel, the ...
John Galt. Galt is the most important character in the novel and the driving force behind its action. The strike that he conceives, organizes, and carries out is the book’s central, defining event. But his identity remains a mystery until two-thirds of the way through the novel, lending him a mythical stature.
