Self-Reliance that would become "Self-Reliance" was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerson as part of a sermon in September 1830 a month after his first marriage. His wife Ellen was sick with tuberculosis and, as Emerson's biographer Robert D. Richardson wrote, "Immortality had never been stronger or more desperately needed!" From 1836 into 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston's Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately, but many of his thoughts in these were later used in "Self-Reliance" and several other essays. Later lectures by Emerson led to public censure of his radical
Philosophical essays on Freud several different interpretations, as well as various potential objections. Davidson's essay, "Paradoxes of irrationality", based on a 1978 lecture, discusses what it means for an action, belief, intention, inference or emotion to be irrational. "Philosophical essays on Freud" was published in 1982 by Cambridge University Press. "Philosophical essays on Freud" received a positive review from Francisca Goldsmith in "Library Journal", mixed reviews from Kathleen Wilkes in "The Times Literary Supplement" and the philosopher Frank Cioffi in the "London Review of Books", and a negative review in "Psychological Medicine". It was also reviewed by Eugen Baer in "Semiotica". Goldsmith described Hopkins's