{"product_id":"compensation-and-self-reliance","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).\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1596052805\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781596052802\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Emerson, Ralph Waldo\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Cosimo Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2005)","offer_id":46414373322949,"sku":"9781596052802","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781596052802.jpg?v=1781864914","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/compensation-and-self-reliance","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}