Ayn Rand

 Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[c February 2, [O.S. Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[c] February 2 1982 [O.S. She is famous for her writing and also for establishing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Her birthplace was in Russia and was raised in Russia. In 1926, she moved to the United States. After two novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In the year 1957, Rand published her best-known work which was the novel Atlas Shrugged. Following that, and until her death in 1982 she turned to non-fiction to spread her ideas and published her own periodicals and publishing numerous collection of essays.Rand advocated reason as the sole way to gain knowledge. She opposed the religion of faith and believed in. She was a proponent of rational and ethical egoism as well as disapproved of altruism. She was against anarchism, statism , and political collectivism. She was a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism and defined it as a system that recognizes the rights of individuals and private property rights. Even though Rand opposed libertarianism, that she believed was anarchism, she is frequently associated with the contemporary libertarian movement of the United States. In art, Rand promoted romantic realism. She was adamantly criticizing the majority of philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, with the exception of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and classical liberals.Rand's novels have sold over 37 million copies. Literary critics have given her fiction mixed reviews, with some expressing more disapproval for her later works. While academic interest in her work has grown after her death, academic philosophers have generally ignored or rejected her theories due to her political stance and lack of rigorous methodology. Her writings have influenced right-libertarians and conservatives.The Objectivist movement attempts to circulate her ideas, both to the general public as well as within academic environments.