SelfReliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
SelfReliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Mitch Horowitz

Unabridged: 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/28/2017


Synopsis

The Extraordinary Manifesto of Independent Living
-Newly Abridged and Introduced in this Powerful Condensation

Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience—its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living.

Now, historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz has deftly and faithfully retained the most powerful ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s original classic, and reintroduced this work in this one-of-a-kind condensation. Listenable within the space of an average commute or lunch hour, the experience of Self-Reliance may represent a true turning point in your life.

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