Hegemonic Change and the Role of the Intellectual in Atlas Shrugged A Gramscian Study

SYED HAROON AHMED SHAH is an MPhil research scholar at International Islamic University, Islamabad. His MPhil dissertation is titled “The Workings of Ideological and Repressive State Apparatuses in the Fiction of Ayn Rand,” which employs the theories of Louis Althusser. He is well versed in Objectivist and libertarian literature and is currently investigating the workings of deontological and utilitarian ethics in Ayn Rand's fiction. He advocates Objectivism and libertarianism in the academic space of Pakistan, which is predominantly Marxist and socialist.