{"product_id":"compensation-and-self-reliance-book-ralph-waldo-emerson-9781596052802","title":"Compensation and Self-Reliance","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).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50393722126609,"sku":"CIN1596052805G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037914693905,"sku":"NIN9781596052802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1596052805.jpg?v=1751277043","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/compensation-and-self-reliance-book-ralph-waldo-emerson-9781596052802","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}