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1、sATEACHER’SGUIDETOTHESIGNETEDITIONOFAYNRAND’SANTHEMByDR.MICHAELS.BERLINER,ExecutiveDirectoroftheAynRandInstituteATeacher’sGuidetoAynRand’sAnthem2INTRODUCTIONAynRand(1905–1982)wasborninRussiaandeducatedundertheCommunists,experiencingfirsthandthehorror
2、softotalitarianism.SheescapedfromRussiain1926andcametoAmericabecauseitrepresentedherindividualistphilosophy.Anthem,writtenin1937,isAynRand’snoveletteabouttheessenceofcollectivism.ItwaspublishedinEnglandin1938,wentintoalimitedAmericaneditionin1946,and
3、wasthenpublishedbyNewAmericanLibraryin1961.TheAnthemteacher’sguidehasbeenpreparedbyDr.MichaelS.Berliner.Dr.BerlinertaughtphilosophyandphilosophyofeducationatCaliforniaStateUniversity,Northridge,whereheservedasChairmanoftheDepartmentofSocialandPhiloso
4、phicalFoundationsofEducation.HeregularlyusedAntheminhisintroductorycoursestoillustratethemeaningofindependence.HereceivedhisPh.D.inphilosophyfromBostonUniversityandiscurrentlyexecutivedirectoroftheAynRandInstitute.“Itisasintowritethis.Itisasintothink
5、wordsnoothersthinkandtoputthemdownuponpapernoothersaretosee....Thereisnotransgressionblackerthantodoorthinkalone.”SobeginsAnthem,whosethemeis,inAynRand’swords,“Themeaningofman’sego.”Anthemprojectsacompletelycollectivizedsociety,asocietyinwhichtheword
6、“I”nolongerexists.Anthemisnotjustastoryabouttheindividualbeingswallowedbythecollective.Itisalsoanidentificationofhowthatcanhappen,whatideaspeoplemustfirstacceptbeforesuchatotalitariansocietycantakehold.AndAnthemisnotmerelyastoryaboutthehorrible,depre
7、ssinglifeofpeopleinacollectivistsociety;itisalsoaboutthetriumphoftheindividual’sindependentspirit,thetriumphofthosewhorejecttheethicsofcollectivism.THEVALUEOFANTHEMFORYOUNGSTUDENTSAnthemcontainsmanyelementsthatappealstronglytoyoungreaders.Itisanexcit
8、ingandinspiringstory,withheroiccharactersriskingtheirlivesfortheirideals.Ithasmystery,carryingstudentsintoascience-fictionworldofthefuture.Itportrayseventswithgrandsignificance,challengingreaderstodecidenotjustwhatwillhappentoparticularcharacters,but
