Emerson, the Stoics, and Me

Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life

De: Mark Matousek

Narrado por: Stephen Graybill

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©2023 Mark Matousek (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

An Update of Timeless Thought

A good synthesis of Emersonian Transcendentalism and Stoic philosophy for 21st century readers - at times superficial / hopefully those interested will dig deeper into the sources themselves - on balance very enjoyable

The presentation method resonated deeply with me.

The organized and straightforward approach to presenting the content so one can easily grasp the concepts.

Subject matter engaging, author’s take often hypocritical

I have fallen in love with Emerson’s writings and I’ve listened to this audiobook twice, but both times I had to pull up my waders for the occasional hypocritical bullshit Mr. Matousek couldn’t help but spew. As with many progressives, the author draws the line of reasonable discourse at the modern hyperbole about conservatives and the lies they like to propagate and feed off of in the media. I look forward to someday when maybe we can look back and see that we were played by people in power against each other, and that they profit off of knee-jerk reactions in response to lies. It’s all so non-Emerson like. Otherwise it’s a great book. I’ll probably listen to it again.

Quasi-stoic but...

a very good and interesting listen. I learned a lot about him and his contemporaries.

Stoicism taught with political & religious bias

Stoicism does not instill political beliefs or encourage certain Leftist directions. Nor does it instill anti-religious views. Very bias writer

Very little to do with Emerson or stoicism?

It’s an OK read, but the guy spends very little time on Emerson, bounces around to modern day, transgender ism, gay rights, and a plethora of other things that had nothing to do with Emerson? In my humble opinion, it reads much more like a book on Emerson and modern politics; Screaming of presentism, much more than Emerson, or any of the transcendentalist? If you wanna book reading, modern day, politics into Emerson and his writings, 200 years ago, and this book is definitely for you; but if you’re actually wanting some thing about stoicism or Emerson, I would stay away from this book, just to be honest as a student of transcendentalism :-)