| Compensation and Self-Reliance Contributor(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596052805 ISBN-13: 9781596052802 Publisher: Cosimo Classics OUR PRICE: $13.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.3 |
| LCCN: 2006272599 |
| Series: Cosimo Classics Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 5" W x 8" (0.18 lbs) 68 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Man is his own star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Probably no writer has so profoundly influenced American philosophy and literature, as did Emerson. Known as The Father of Transcendentalism, he was the focal point of a small group of intellectuals reacting against the orthodoxy of the established religions of his era. As an active lecturer in the early 1830s, he delivered a number of landmark lectures, most notably among them - Compensation and Self-Reliance, in which Emerson fervently declares man's inherent divinity. By positing that the way to realization lay solely within, man can be fulfilled only through one's own "self-induced and self-devised efforts." Marked by a deep compassion and insight, Compensation and Self-Reliance rings like a clarion-call - one Emerson intoned steadily throughout his life. Though his last years were marked by a decline in his mental powers, his reputation as one of the outstanding figures of American letters was all but assured by the time of his death. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-82, was an American poet and essayist. Universally known as the "Sage of Concord," Emerson established himself as a leading spokesman of transcendentalism and as a major figure in American literature. His additional works include a series of lectures published as Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870). |