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Top reviews from United Kingdom. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. So says Ayn Rand in the forward to this edition, words written 25 years after The Fountainhead was first published in It’s hard to imagine that many people read this book today without being aware of Ms Rand’s philosophy of “Objectivism” and that she is the novelist of choice for so many from the libertarian strand of right-wing political and economic thinking, as exemplified, but perhaps also over-simplified, by the Tea-Party in the USA.

So it was for me, certainly, although I made a conscious decision not to read any more commentary about the book before I read it so as to be able to experience it, as far as possible, simply as a novel. So maybe you should stop reading here and read the book first? As a story it is well constructed, albeit a little slow paced.

We have a protagonist, architect Howard Roark, a heroine and love interest, Dominique Francon, and several antagonists who seem determined either to put him down or steal his ideas and energy. He perseveres, maintains his integrity, wins through, gets the girl Ms Rand spent much of her early writing career in Hollywood, and cinematic influences on her scene descriptions become quite obvious once you’re aware of this. It’s hard not to be aware, however, that almost all of the characters are archetypes for certain ways of thinking or behaving, and in many cases that they are probably modelled on historical personalities.

As a result, they do seem somewhat extreme or unlikely characters even in the context, and I found it difficult not always to be thinking about what they represented rather than who they were as people. I say that as someone, moreover, is usually oblivious to allegory and levels of meaning on first reading a book.

In Howard Roark, Ayn Rand is projecting her vision of an ideal man. That ideal is someone who is absolutely confident of his own abilities and vision, utterly unwilling to compromise or engage in a team effort, and who works solely for his own profit and satisfaction.

While Rand does appears to believe that rational self-interest by individuals will work to the benefit of mankind as a whole – the “glory of mankind” as she puts it – this is not the justification for permitting people to acting selfishly. They should act selfishly, she seems to say, because it is only by serving themselves that they achieve their full potential, and because there should be no restriction on their freedom to act as they wish, save respect for property and the willingness of others to engage with them in free trade.

Sometimes, however, Rand gives her ideal man a freedom to act that does impinge upon others’ freedoms, most shockingly in a scene where Roark has sex with Dominique Francon for the first time, an act that Rand describes as rape. The Fountainhead Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand”s daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim.

This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. But it may be certified by these two sources later if they believe it transmits Objectivism to people accurately in essential terms.

Thus, to merit their blessing I will modify 1 this Reference Guide by removing inaccurate analysis if there is any ; tweak the analysis that already exists so it reads perfectly ; and edit this book for grammar, syntax, and punctuation if required. In exchange for an Objectivist Intellectual editing this Reference Guide I will happily let this person put his or her name in the by-line of this book—perhaps first—if their contribution is significant enough.

But if he cannot revise this book because he has other projects he needs to focus on, maybe another professional objectivist who is less busy, finds my analysis accurate, and trusts me, can help me perfect this book. So it is worth being formally published by an appropriate publisher. But if presently no Objectivist Intellectual can help me refine this book because they are unsure what will come of it, maybe they could write something about it in the future.

That is why I want them to edit my book. Ergo, they will probably agree with my own Objective thoughts based on this data.

And if there is any element in my next book they disagree with they can fix it too by co-authoring that book with me as well. The twelve sections are: 1. Major Characters 28 2.

Minor Characters 3. Buildings 37 4. Journalism 9 5. Groups of People 20 6. Chronology 7. Sundry Concepts 6 8. Symbols 27 9. Places 6 Tries to Kill Toohey. Dale Ainsworth Socialites 8 Mrs. Wayne Wilmot Heller Worshipper 60 Mr. Applebee Mrs. Hooper Mrs. Hulburt Mrs. Melander Mrs. Walling Mrs. Rather she denies herself by failing to develop a romance with Peter. Ergo, she never calls, writes, meets, or wires Keating. Instead she relishes the rare occasions when he comes to her.

Thus, she waits for him to make the next move. For him to call, wire, or reach out to her in some way. Accordingly, Catherine does not actively court Peter. For she feels if Peter wants to be with her he will take the initiative. He will come to her. Indeed, Catherine takes no action to pursue Keating, since her romantic philosophy in life is sacrificial since it proscribes that it is her duty to wait for the man she loves to come to her.

Further, Catherine thinks she may scare Peter away if she is too intense too soon. Accordingly, she does not actively pursue him. Instead she passively waits. And while she waits she tries not to think about Keating too much. But when she does think about him she hopes he will come to her. But when he is away, Catherine misses Peter terribly. But not enough to call him. For she feels that the greater good of their relationship demands that she derive reminiscent pleasure remembering him — while enduring pain as a necessary toll.

Indeed, he loves her. This is why Peter does not manipulate Catherine to bolster his career, like he does with everyone else. Since he does not want to use and discard her like he does with everyone else. First, she gazes at Roark, at the rock quarry, twice, signaling that she wants him. Second, she breaks her fireplace, then summons him to her home, to her bedroom, to fix it, to get him alone, so they can talk. Third, when he arrives, she strikes a seductive pose, at the top of her stairway, inviting him to her boudoir.

Prompted by this invitation, Roark adds time to his job by explaining different types of marble. He is hinting that Dominique should also be very careful about how she interacts with him. Because her encouragement may have unintended consequences.

For she peruses Roark adamantly. Especially, since she must know why Roark stood her up; why he does not admire her; why he will not yield to her as other men do. Greatly upset, then, at her ostensible rejection, Dominique gallops to the Quarry atop a charging stallion to ask Roark why he did not fix her fireplace?

When she arrives at the pit Roark is not there. He has already finished working. And she knows it. And his absence enrages her further. Since Dominique needs to intercept Roark before he gets home, she tears through branches on her steed blazing haphazard trails to find him.

Or, did it Miss Francon? Humiliated that Roark casts her aside, like a piece of trash, Dominique frets over why he does not want her, since she thinks she can attract any man, especially unsung geniuses. Dominique fails to realize, however, that Roark does like her; he admires her; and is in a way to be in love with her. To confirm that she wants him. Also by sending Pasquale Orsini, Roark shows Dominique that he holds himself in as much esteem as she does, if not more so, and therefore, he will not automatically yield to her desire to be with him.

So he complies with her desperation. Later that night, then, after Roark is convinced that Dominique needs to be controlled, he climbs up to her bedroom and takes her by force, thus harnessing her spirit to make her soul give expression to its inner yearnings.

Essentially, because she wants the experience to continue Obviously, if Roark really raped Dominique she would not pine for him. Berliner, ed.

In sum, since Roark knew that Dominique needed to be taken, he took her, thereby creating a situation where they could fall deeply in love and eventually marry—once Dominique accepted his philosophy.

But unlike a religious saint, Dominique is an atheist whose glowing halo is not the divine light of a non- existent God. Analysis of Roark Not Yielding to Dominique: By asking Roark to abandon architecture for loving her, Dominique wants him to exchange his greatest value architecture for a lesser value her , since ultimately, she does not believe that even Roark can forever succeed building his own way: According to his own sui generis vision.

Accordingly, she urges Roark to work an unimportant job with unimportant results. In brief, Dominique asks Roark to live only for her and she only for him, since together she thinks they can be moderately happy. But what matters to Roark is architecture. Above all else. Even Dominique. His reason for being. Why he walks the earth. Which he will not leave for anyone.

Not even her. Even more important than her. Analysis of How Dominique Disappoints Toohey By Remaining Calm: Toohey tries to upset Dominique by telling her that he cast Roark as an enemy of the people by making him an enemy of religion. That he did this by tricking Roark into designing a radical temple that would violate the values of traditional religion, thereby prompting orthodox religionists to oppose Roark on reactionary grounds. Analysis of Why Wynand Marries Dominique: Though Wynand knows that Dominique does not love him, he is largely unconcerned, since he hopes she will eventually grow to care for him, once she learns who he is.

Once she sees his pure inner soul. Thus, he does not object to Dominique using him to numb herself to ethical depravity, since he appreciates her twisted virtue. They both like to tempt others to see if they can either remain honorable — in the face of moral hazard — or gain honor — where they do not have it.

Since Dominique and Wynand both like to see how honor operates in other people they share similar characteristics. Seven, Keating loves Roark because Roark enables him to win prestige, get fame, earn status, get influence, and make money, which Keating loves— nevermind how he gets these things—since these empty plaudits make Keating feel successful for a while.

Durkin, who will not build government housing projects for the masses, he also mocks rich ladies, like Kiki Holcombe, since she hosts lavish parties for wealthy architects, instead of toiling for peasants. In fact Toohey pours scorn on these two individuals since he cannot fully control them.

Since he cannot make one man build to his uniform building standards nor the other woman fit neatly into his new world order. But if people do not go along with his plans Toohey publicly maligns their standing by insulting their characters, undercutting their work, and questioning their professional purpose, so that either they abandon their beliefs to him entirely, or suffer public ostracism for opposing him.

So they buckle to his will. So they voluntarily fill themselves with the ideas Toohey wants them to contain. By the end of the novel, however, readers discover that Toohey does not help people, he harms them. That he is not a saint as most people think he is but rather is a menace to society. A person who will metastasize into a virulent form of cancer especially if left unchecked that will first cripple then kill a healthy organism.

That really Toohey is not so innocent after all, even though he pretends to be idealistic. Essentially, Toohey builds reader suspense about his secret nature by making a series of bizarre statements in the story. These comments suggest he is not what he seems. That he is not benevolent. That when the time is right he will shed his cloak of respectability to reveal that he is not what he pretends to be but much worse. Further, all the dark hints about Toohey scattered throughout the novel stokes readers to discover what Toohey is really after?

What he is really about? What makes Toohey tick? Why Toohey is how he is? What makes him do what he does? During his final speech to Keating readers learn just how evil Toohey is when he confesses to: destroying architecture by building-up Peter Keating; destroying literature by building-up Lois Cook; destroying the press by building-up Lancelot Clokey; and destroying the theater by building-up Ike.

So they rely on his counsel. Analysis of How Toohey Seeks to Control Others By Preaching Architectural Uniformity: Toohey recommends strict adherence to classicism, without creativity, without originality, without inventiveness, without uniqueness, so he can bundle one more category of people—one more social grouping of citizens—into yet another monolith of humans he can control.

So that he can add one more collection of people to the long list of folks he already rules. Until he rules them all. Until he unites the globe into a communist dictatorship, where everyone sacrifices to everyone and everyone is equally miserable.

A worldwide proletariat where his iron fist is forced onto billions. Thus, by advocating uniform block buildings that conform to classical building canons, Toohey backs not an inventive creativity signaling the independence of an architect to conceive new and significant designs. But rather he urges architects to simply imitate — to merely regurgitate — past building traditions by modeling their work on former building styles.

So that architects are not pioneering spirits that blaze new paths with their original buildings thereby inspiring the earth with a new spirit of modern progress. But instead are made pliable by being shackled to what has been done before. Thus, by advocating architectural monotony Toohey not only tries to tear humanity back to a previous and worse condition but also by promoting building sameness Toohey tries to homogenize all people, regardless of difference, so he can rule them all, easily, without challenge.

Ergo, it is no surprise that he measures the repeating design features of buildings as a touchstone to the universizability of all architecture, because he wants domiciles and their builders to be identical in form and equal in substance, too.

So he can control them all. Therefore, once the public sees red, Wynand cashes in on the furor that Toohey stirs for him by writing outlandish articles that further tap into the passions and prejudices of the people Analysis of How Wynand Uses Expedient Ideologies To Make Money and Gain Power: To consolidate his rule over people, Wynand uses whatever ideology is popular at the moment, even Marxist communism, since his end goal is to sell more copies of the Banner, not to produce and disseminate moral values.

Yet, by abetting Toohey, Wynand nurtures the very force that destroys him. Analysis of How Toohey Controls People By Dividing Them Against Themselves: Toohey degrades the best within men by brainwashing people into believing that they need a ruler like him to tell them what to think, how to act, and what to pursue. Part of this brainwashing process entails turning people against themselves through a process of internal corruption, until nothing remains sacred to them.

So he does not feel all alone. People who not only understand Toohey for who he is but also appreciate him for what he wants. The only person he admires on some level is Dominique Francon who at least classifies Toohey for who he is not what he pretends to be.

Analysis of How Toohey Turns People Into His Slaves: Toohey is a master psychological manipulator who persuades people to believe what he wants them to believe so ultimately they become his slaves. So they do not oppose him with thoughts of their own, emotions of their own, a will of their own, or a mind of their own.

So eventually they become his lackeys who will empower him by voting him into office. He does this by not only mocking love in general but also by having him chair the Council of American Architects, which is an organization designed to destroy all American architectural values. Then filling the void of his interiority with ideas Toohey wants his soul to contain. It crumbles. To the extent that Keating betrays Roark to him by turning over their Cortlandt contract. Thus, even though Keating knows Toohey for what he really is i.

He cannot stop Roark from becoming a prominent architect. He cannot jail Roark for exploding Cortlandt. He is unable to rule the Banner after 13 years of incessant scheming.

In this connection, Mephistopheles walks the earth trying to tempt and corrupt any virtuous man he encounters because he wants them to join him in his own private hell.

Accordingly, he believes that to shoot himself for no good reason is not the way to end his life, since a person should treat suicide as a solemn act performed with great seriousness. Then, at night he sleeps four hours, often waking early in the morning to review important articles from his newspapers, magazines, and books, from New York City, Philadelphia, Springville Kansas, and elsewhere.

After making shorthand notes that only a trusted secretary can decipher, Wynand goes to the office for yet another full day of work. This, then, is the routine Wynand follows for most of the year, when he is not vacationing on his yacht. Because Wynand is an evil monster to them — a base scoundrel who they cannot admire for any reason whatsoever, even though he is renowned for having the esthetic sensibilities of a master artist. For this reason, he feels utterly base — even though he is a complete success in conventional eyes — since he knows if only subconsciously that he betrayed himself to make money dishonestly.

Similarly, he protects his private art gallery by locating it in a windowless chamber on the 52nd floor of his private penthouse safe from the intrusive gaze of others. With both Dominique and his art gallery Wynand hermetically seals the spaces in which they are housed, so they are not defiled by toxic outside air, since he must shelter them from corrupt external influences. He must protect Dominique from New York City since she is his queen who he does not want to see degraded.

He must protect his art gallery from New York City since his art collection expresses his inner soul which cannot be shared. Similarly, since Wynand loves Roark he wishes he could feed him at the Nordland Hotel as if Roark were actually broke and really needed the meal, since he wants to make Roark healthy and strong. In fact Wynand loves Roark so much that he wants to cruise with him, on the high seas, all alone, so he does not have to share him with anyone. For evil, to Wynand, is what makes the world go round.

It is what makes a person tick. Therefore, to fight sordidness as most people do is futile to Wynand, since he believes that depravity is an inescapable feature of the murky human psyche. Thus, Wynand feels he must indulge his readers dark sides with daily articles of vice and corruption: writings that enable them to swallow evil wholesale, since it is sugarcoated with a hollow mask of virtue.

A thin veneer of idealism, if you will, that crumbles away on close inspection. Indeed, since Wynand wants to enrich and empower himself by feeding off of others sores he produces lurid stories everyday: narratives that show people their darker devils while obscuring their brighter angels.

Indeed, to Wynand the creation of the Banner is simply an enterprising move. It is just plain good horse sense, since everybody has to make a living. Nevermind that his Banner expresses the worst within people.

Wynand does not care. He only cares about wresting money and power from civilization. Thus, he does not feel guilty for crafting garish stories that generate, sustain, and perpetuate the basest disvalues possible to man, since he feels that people can only rise in this way. Accordingly, Wynand questions if he was right to sell his soul for copious amounts of money, since trading his innocence for power is a pyric victory offset by the staggering loss of his being. But because Wynand would rather rule the herd then be a victim of it i.

That since people are inherently wicked anyway he might as well get rich and powerful feeding off their inevitable vices. Accordingly, Wynand provides a forum for people to indulge their vices before someone else does. Not by being a human sufferer himself. This is why Wynand strives to be a strong man who forces others to obey his orders — not a weak man who follows others orders — by not only broadcasting gloomy ideas of a dystopian world where man cannot help but be depraved but also by promoting the basest disvalues imaginable in print through his yellow scandal rags.

One, they do not want to be fired by him. Two, they do not want to be hurt by him. He does this to Ellsworth Toohey, for example. Or Allen and Falk, for instance. Even employees who have worked for him for years. Evidently, Wynand is to be obeyed by his employees without question, since he is willing to fire anyone who does not follow his marching orders to a tee — including a seasoned staffer whose departure means the loss of many readers.

At other times they keep away from him. Even if it means working overtime. Until he forces his victims to do his bidding. Accordingly, Wynand abandons the carnage of his erstwhile strongarm bully tactics so he can lead a media conglomerate to financial success. Ergo, to gain power over the media business, Wynand uses brains not muscles — intelligence not brawn — to win fiduciary rewards, since nuance is needed to win prominence in the newspaper business.

Not physical force. He still steps all over them to get what he wants. He still steals from people, metaphorically, by persuading them to surrender their souls to him. Since, by publishing corrupt stories, they are independent no longer.

Now, they depend on him to tell them what to think. As head of Wynand Enterprises, then, what has changed are the weapons Wynand uses to steal from people. Not the strategy he deploys to drain money from them. For now Wynand controls people through the media i. This, then, is how he shifts his target from goods of the body to goods of the soul by swapping physical force for mental coercion.

Indeed, now that Wynand owns a media empire, he either restrains himself when he wants to use violence, to control the scene, or he allows himself to be restrained by his friends, since sometimes he needs their help to calm down. To explain, when Wynand sees Roark enjailed for exploding Cortlandt he is murderously angry. So upset that he is ready to blow up the jail and attack the officers holding Roark. If Roark was not there to tranquilize Wynand he may have tried.

But because Roark soothes him, first from his jail cell, with gentle speech, then by leading Wynand by his hand to his car, Wynand overmasters his trembling fury.

On his own. On another level, Wynand is tempted to revert to his former gangster ways, since he is accustomed to forcing men to do what he wants through bodily compulsion. By beating them up. In the end, though, Wynand overcomes his gangland impulses, on multiple occasions, to restore his tranquility of mind and emotions.

Now he calmly relies on controlling the flow of information to navigate his way to money and power not beating people up anymore since the playing field has now changed. In this setting, Wynand uses constructive reason, not destructive rage, to accomplish his goals, because here one must persuade people to follow their will by being rational: not by hitting them over the head until they submit.

Thus, as head of Wynand Enterprises Wynand uses persuasion to convince people to follow him — not physical force anymore. For he now realizes, perhaps subconsciously, that anger is a form of weakness that precludes him from acting rationally. On one hand, Wynand is happy that Roark flourishes through the substance of his ideas not the consensus of other people. In brief, though Wynand is happy that Roark inspires him with the hope to succeed in life because of his virtues and perfections not in spite of them, he is still saddened that Roark reminds him of what he could have been, should have been, but did not have the strength to be, since Wynand chose to pervert his moral soul by banking off of suffering and death, instead of building his moral character by promoting life and living.

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Neither character makes a great role model; I can only think that the sexual mores of the s made thw impossible to suggest that Ms Francon might have initiated the act. As portrayed in The Fountainhead, objectivism collectkrs to be a harsh philosophy that takes individualism to an extreme. It seems to me that it’s based on some questionable premises. In the introduction to this book, for example, Rand states that a social system best suited to an ideal man would be one that is “free, productive, rational” and “which demands and rewards the best in every man”.

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As for modernism, this certainly looked more interesting in than it did thirty or seventy years later. I work at the moment in an modernist “New Town” built in the s – perhaps Rand is right that it and the other new towns would be better had they been designed and built by unfettered individualists rather than municipal planning committees, but they might have been better still without “modernism”.

It always seems a presumptuous and pointless to give a rating to a book that’s been regarded as a classic for more than half a century, and about which so many erudite and much better researched words have been written. In awarding it four stars, however, I am reflecting both how I found it as a story and my view of Objectivism fountainhexd expressed in it.

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When received it seem even more interesting than first though. I started reading the Fountainhead because I came across the author’s name and the term “Randian” a number of times during a short time. I am from Finland, where Rand is not well known. I was intrigued by her reputation as a die hard defender of individualism and capitalism and thought that reading her would be relevant amid all the debate over bankers’ bonuses, bailouts and the future the fountainhead collectors edition book free download the welfare state.

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Career-wise he is talented, passionate, and uncorrupted: he will not compromise his artistic vision in order to get a lucrative commission no matter how dire a financial strait he is in. He is similarly pure in all facets of life, refusing to feign friendship with anyone, or to founainhead himself for anyone even though this often causes him much trouble and suffering. Roark’s life is noble and contrasts sharply with that of his peer since college, Peter Keating, who symbolises the spinelessness that most people possess to some degree.

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Even in his love life, the most personal thing of all, he lets the opinions of others dictate his edltion. Although he has an influential network and is a member of high society, Keating’s relations with people are hollow and unfulfilling, whereas Roark’s are meaningful and deep. Roark’s real antagonist is Toohey the socialist.

Unlike Keating, who cannot articulate the reasons for his discomfort with Roark, Toohey te Roark perfectly and despises all that he represents. Roark exudes strength and independence; Toohey has fred protected and sided with the weak both in his personal life and professionally, as a socialist agitator and writer.

He is one of the few who recognises Roark’s genius, but is intent on destroying him. In Toohey’s opinion, Roark and his wonderful buildings would not inspire and elevate the rest of the population, but rather depress them by showing them what greatness people are capable of, but which they themselves never will be.

Toohey advocates the sacrifice of individual achievement and self-expression to egalitarianism through mediocrity, and is portrayed as the most despicable character of the novel. The life of his niece, Catherine, demonstrates the result te living according to Toohey’s philosophy. She devotes herself to her career as a social worker, completely abandoning her own needs in favour of those of societys’ weakest members.

Rather than finding the fulfilment that Toohey promised she would in relieving herself of her own ego, she feels bitter and empty to the point of losing her humanity. There could be no clearer downoad of socialism than this.

Rand suggests that if, by contrast, everyone lived like Roark and pursued their own self-interest, all human relations would be purer and people would be happier and more fully human. This is, перейти course, the classic argument for capitalism. Rand’s worldview is very black and white. As many have noted, her characters are one-dimensional vehicles to express ideas, and are hardly realistic. Roark is presented as the ideal human being and seems to have no internal contradictions or flaws, while Keating lacks any redeeming qualities.

Rand seems to be very contemptuous of the average person, represented in the novel by the mindless readers of a filthy tabloid newspaper called the Gazette. She idealizes Roark’s strength, creativity and resolution but has no regard for other values such as kindness, cooperation and altruism. This, of course, is her point: that it would be best for individuals and society if everyone uncompromisingly pursued their own interest.

This idea has the fountainhead collectors edition book free download acknowledged as overly-simplified in economics, and I think it is dowwnload that on an individual level. In my opinion, altruism, the fountainhead collectors edition book free download and wanting to be accepted by others are fundamental aspects of human nature, albeit more present in some people than others. The quality of seeking others’ approval, which Rand so scorns in Keating, has been seen by for example Adam Smith as the very glue that holds our society together and creates the basis of our morality.