Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator: Phil Paonessa
Unabridged: 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/21/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Although he began his career as a Unitarian minister, he gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism instead. Seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, he disseminated his thoughts through published essays and public lectures across the United States.
Ralph Waldo Emerson discusses about friendship in this book. He mentions all the foundations of it. In this current age, where many people are more inclined to utilize friendships for personal advantages, this book will help us know more about true friendship.......more
Pretty deep stuff. After reading this, I'm not sure I have any "friends." Not by Emerson's definition or standards anyway. But this is good (again using his definitions) :-) "I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them." - Emerson......more
Emerson had countless aficionadas and cohorts, but few or no friends. Emotionally he was a secluded man who was always profoundly concerned with the lot of his fellow human-beings. He was affectionate and it was never showy. He begins this essay with a statement of this silent affection – note the be......more
This was difficult to read closely. Presenting a dense, heady treatise on the topic of friendship, not assisted in the least by the archaic and formal language, Emerson seems to contradict himself from beginning to end. I am left feeling that I can't at all explain what the central points of this es......more