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- Title
Embracing Power Roles Naturally: Rand's Nietzschean Heroes and Villains.
- Authors
Powell, Robert
- Abstract
Because of Ayn Rand's problematic moral labels on her characters, Gail Wynand, not Howard Roark, should be her true Nietzschean hero. Wynand meets the criteria of both the Nietzschean Superman and Rand's Objectivism. Roark's false integrity taints his greatness and improperly vulgarizes him as a Nietzschean Superman. Rand problematically wants her heroes to accept the greatness of the Übermensch, but reject his natural existence and will to power. Dominique Francon should be her true Nietzschean villain, because, unlike Ellsworth Toohey, she enjoys the painful destruction of herself and others.
- Publication
Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Foundation), 2009, Vol 10, Issue 2, p371
- ISSN
1526-1018
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.5325/jaynrandstud.10.2.0371