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Dive into the captivating world of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" with this concise yet comprehensive video. In just a few minutes, we unpack the compelling n...
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Jul 10, 2017 · The Fountainhead empowers men of both good and mediocre qualities to conflate arrogant self-gratification with doing the right thing even in the face of tremendous opposition and at considerable...
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The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.
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In her first notes for The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand describes its purpose as “a defense of egoism in its real meaning . . . a new definition of egoism and its living example.” She later states its theme as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul; the psychological motivations and the basic premises that ...
The Fountainhead (1943) introduced the world to architect Howard Roark, an intransigent individualist. A man whose arrogant pride in his work is fully earned, Roark is an innovator who battles against a tradition-worshipping society—refusing to compromise his standards in work and life.
