{"id":454,"date":"2021-02-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=454"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T20:09:36","slug":"the-romanticism-of-atlas-shrugged-by-ben-bayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/the-romanticism-of-atlas-shrugged-by-ben-bayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romanticism of Atlas Shrugged by Ben Bayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Ayn Rand described Romanticism as &#8220;a category of art based on the recognition of the principle that man possesses the faculty of volition.&#8221; In this session, we discuss how her novel &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221; fits into this category. Drawing on the framework Rand establishes in her essay &#8220;What Is Romanticism?,&#8221; we explore how the major conflicts in the plot of &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221; express Rand&#8217;s commitment to the premise of volition in man&#8217;s existential action, and how the major value-conflicts faced by central characters in the novel express the same commitment in regard to man&#8217;s consciousness. We also highlight the importance of each of these features of Rand&#8217;s Romanticism and how they contribute to the enjoyment of the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayn Rand described Romanticism as &#8220;a category of art based on the recognition of the principle that man possesses the faculty of volition.&#8221; In this session, we discuss how her novel &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221; fits into this category. Drawing on the framework Rand establishes in her essay &#8220;What Is Romanticism?,&#8221; we explore how the major conflicts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[309,8,7,263,216,12,539,219],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-art","tag-atlas-shrugged","tag-ayn-rand","tag-inspiration","tag-life","tag-philosophy","tag-romanticism","tag-sense-of-life","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}