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Ayn Rand’s fiction has been the most effective “gateway drug” to liberty, which is why CATO Institute founder Ed Crane deemed Rand the “all time greatest recruiter for the liberty movement.”
THE CHALLENGE: How to preserve and grow that recruiting role when daily reading of books among young people has fallen from 70% in the late 1970’s to 12% today?
The Atlas Society is meeting this challenge: pioneering artistic, technologically savvy ways of marketing Rand’s ideas to new audiences through a variety of vehicles. This includes animated videos, graphic novels, social media, and both virtual and live events.
Ayn Rand's philosophical works have been praised as presenting historic breakthroughs in thinking. At the Atlas Society, our scholars work to further develop this philosophy born in the mid-twentieth century. We present the empowering principles of Objectivism to a global audience, and offer those principles as a rational and moral alternative in the marketplace of philosophical ideas.
Our content and our world-class faculty of scholars promote the principles of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, set forth in such works as her epic novel Atlas Shrugged, and in her brilliant non-fiction essays. Objectivism is designed as a guide to life, and celebrates the remarkable potential and power of the individual. Objectivism also challenges the doctrines of irrationalism, self-sacrifice, brute force, and collectivism that have brought centuries of chaos and misery into the lives of millions of individuals.
The Atlas Society’s mission is to inspire people to embrace reason, achievement, benevolence, and ethical self-interest as the moral foundation for political liberty, personal happiness and a flourishing society.
We build on Ayn Rand’s works and ideas and use artistic and other creative means to reach and inspire new audiences. We promote an open and empowering brand of Objectivism; we welcome engagement with all who seek to understand the philosophy, and we use reason, facts, and open debate in the search for truth above all else; we do not appeal to authority or conflate personalities with ideas.
Wir tun dies durch eine Vielzahl von Programmen, darunter:
Die Atlas Society wurde 1990 von David Kelley als The Institute for Objectivist Studies gegründet. In seiner Erklärung bei der Gründung des Instituts (inzwischen veröffentlicht in The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand) rief David Kelley zu einer offenen, intellektuell toleranten objektivistischen Bewegung auf, die sich durch einen wohlwollenden und rationalen Sinn für das Leben auszeichnet. Heute steht die Atlas Society im Zentrum dieses Zweigs der Bewegung. Nicht alle Objektivisten und Bewunderer von Ayn Rand sind mit der Vision von Dr. Kelley einverstanden, und die objektivistische Bewegung ist weiterhin durch intensive und oft persönliche Differenzen und Debatten gespalten. In diesem Abschnitt unserer Website stellen wir Ressourcen zur Verfügung, die den offenen, wohlwollenden Ansatz des Objektivismus erklären und Antworten auf Kritik an unserem Programm und unserer Arbeit geben.
