Self-Reliance

Name: Self-Reliance
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781520078793

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Unabridged: 1 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/15/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

This collection of nineteenth century essays explores Emerson's thoughts about transcendentalism, individualism, and romanticism. The centerpiece of the collection, Emerson's masterpiece Self-Reliance, explains the need for individuals to avoid conformity and false consistency so that they will be able to follow their own instincts and ideas. Although these thoughts may seem to be anti-society in nature, Emerson asserts that self-reliance must be the starting point not for the end of society but for a more efficient and better one. Throughout this collection, Emerson emphasizes that keen belief in the power of the individual.

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on November 23, 2017

Book Review This review was written during a college course years ago; it's funny how basic and immature my thoughts were... LOL Aaaah! That’s all that I can say to Emerson. Last time when I read “The American Scholar,” by mistake, I thought the world of Emerson. Now that I read “The Poe......more

Goodreads review by Riku on April 24, 2014

Shreyaan swadharmo vigunah paradharmaat swanushthitaat; Swadharme nidhanam shreyah paradharmo bhayaavahah. The Bhagavad-Gita, 3.35 (Chapter 3, Verse 35) [Better is one's own Dharma, though devoid of merit, than the Dharma of another well discharged. Better is even death in one's own Dharma; to attempt......more

Goodreads review by Loy on April 23, 2012

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collection of thoughts published by the author in the year 1841. It is indeed a very rare manuscript as it urges its readers to do the unthinkable – trust your gut feeling, your intuition, your common sense, your heart, your spirit and soul – rather than fol......more

Goodreads review by Suhaib on February 08, 2018

Very quotable. I've found myself slumping hard over this one. In this essay, Emerson emphasizes the importance of solitude, the place where the only voice we can hear is ours. This is self-reliance—listening to that voice. "These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint an......more

Goodreads review by PumpkinBooks on March 30, 2020

This was fascinating to read for English class and I enjoyed having a more philosophical view to read from......more