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| | Transcendentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early-to mid-nineteenth century. | | | Another alternative meaning for transcendentalism is the classical philosophy that God transcends the manifest world. | | | The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges. |
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| | PAL: American Transcendentalism:ABrief Introduction |
| | Note: Nineteenth Century American Transcendentalism is not a religion (in the traditional sense of the word); it is a pragmatic philosophy, a state of mind, and a form of spirituality. | | | It is not a religion because it does not adhere to the three concepts common in major religions: a. | | | Jesus also had part of God in himself - he was divine as everyone is divine - except in that he lived an exemplary and transcendental life and made the best use of that Power which is within each one. |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/4intro.html
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| | Emerson's Unitarian Transcendentalism |
| | Emerson’s American Transcendentalism is the belief that we humans can intuit the existence of God. | | | This is American Transcendentalism: the belief that we do not need the miracles of the Bible to know that God exists. | | | Joking aside, transcendentalism is the belief that each of us can experience the existence of God through the beauty of nature. |
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| | American Transcendentalism |
| | "Transcendentalism, as viewed by its disciples, was a pilgrimage from the idolatrous world of creeds and rituals to the temple of the Living God in the soul. | | | It began as a reform movement in the Unitarian church, extending the views of William Ellery Channing on an indwelling God and the significance of intuitive thought. | | | "That belief we term Transcendentalism which maintains that man has ideas, that come not through the five senses or the powers of reasoning; but are either the result of direct revelation from God, his immediate inspiration, or his immanent presence in the spiritual world. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/amtrans.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Transcendentalism |
| | Transcendentalism also involved a rejection of the strict Puritan religious attitudes that were the heritage of New England, where the movement originated. | | | Consequently, the term transcendentalism came to be applied almost exclusively to doctrines of metaphysical idealism. | | | Nearly all transcendentalist doctrines stem from the division of reality into a realm of spirit and a realm of matter. |
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| | TRANSCENDENTALISM, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 060310 |
| | Transcendentalism is seen by its critics as an abstract and idealized conception in which the world is a spiritual realm where real life is left behind: "See the holes made in the bank yonder by the swallows. | | | The paper discusses the emphasis both books place on spirituality and the primacy of family and shows how the characters use their spirituality and their love for their families as the means to transcend materialism. | | | It shows how Thoreau& experiment at Walden was in part the very foundation of transcendentalism and how he grew even more in tune with the natural world around him and certainly looked deeply inside himself to discover his core beliefs and spirituality. |
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http://www.termpapers2000.com/lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=Transcendentalism
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| | Transcendentalism, Transcendence |
| | Transcendentalism was one of the first and most dramatic protests against civil religion in America. | | | Perhaps even more significantly, transcendentalism marked the first substantial attempt in American history to retain the spiritual experience and potential of the Christian faith without any of the substance of its belief. | | | Plato referred to a realm of ideal Forms that was unknowable through the senses, and theologians since have spoken of God in the same way. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/transcen.htm
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| | Ideas - "An Overview of American Transcendentalism" - Martin Bickman |
| | Beginning as a quarrel within the Unitarian church, Transcendentalism's questioning of established cultural forms, its urge to reintegrate spirit and matter, its desire to turn ideas into concrete action developed a momentum of its own, spreading from the spheres of religion and education to literature, philosophy, and social reform. | | | In that epitome of Transcendentalism, Nature (1836), Emerson posits language as originating in names for natural objects which, through the doctrine of correspondences, have intrinsic spiritual and symbolic significance. | | | Albanese, Catherine L. Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America. |
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http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/definitionbickman.html
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| | Transcendentalism: |
| | Transcendentalism is the belief or doctrine asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical | | | Transcendental thought was most clearly and forcefully expressed in Emerson's writings and in those of his disciple, Henry David Thoreau. | | | Perhaps the best way of viewing this school of thought is by examining its American roots, especially the ideas about the relations between God, humanity, and nature held by Emerson's New England ancestors. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/4747/transcend.html
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| | Term-Papers.us - Transcendentalism |
| | Transcendentalism cannot be properly understood outside the context of Unitarianism, the dominant religion in Boston during the early nineteenth century. | | | This is how transcendentalism began to emerge; the Liberalists began to make their own unique theological contribution in rejecting the doctrine of the divine trinity. | | | He believed in “transcendental knowledge” but confined it to things such as time, space, quantity and casualty, which in his views were imposed by the perception of human minds. |
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| | New England Transcendentalism |
| | The Transcendental emphasis on the oneness of individual souls with nature and with God gave dignity and importance to human activity and made possible a belief in the power to effect social change in harmony with God's purposes. | | | Late in life, well past the peak of Transcendental activity, the enduring Elizabeth Peabody lent her support to the causes of woman's suffrage and world peace. | | | What was required for this perception was neither the received dogma of traditional systems of belief nor rational intellectual insight, but rather a more mystical human intuition capable of sensing truth and morality in the various tangible expressions of the divine, including human endeavor. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -TRANSCENDENTALISM |
| | But it was from its beginning a valuable source of cultural agitation, challenging religious complacency and orthodox theologies in the 1830s, supporting a wide variety of reform causes in the forties and, in the fifties, supplying considerable impetus to the antislavery movement. | | | More broadly, it is the name given to a religious and spiritual movement of protest and revival that, especially through Emerson's work, has influenced American literature and society ever since. | | | In 1836, four years after resigning his pastorate at Boston's Second Church, Emerson published Nature, a central manifesto of the movement, which, though avoiding sectarian issues and relying more on poetic insight than logical argument, directly challenged the materialism of the age. |
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| | Dickinson, #657 |
| | This suggestion clearly shows her belief in Transcendentalism, which held that each and every person needs to be connected to the oversoul to find harmony in community and that this connection must be sought through the use of Reason and Understanding. | | | Puritanism allowed Dickinson to remain grounded in her faith of God, while Transcendentalism permitted her to release herself from limiting conceptions of humanity which enabled her to view herself as an individual with an identity. | | | Emily Dickinson's alternative to traditional religion is a combination of both Puritanism and Transcendentalism. |
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| | Transcendentalism |
| | Emerson's sense that men and women were, as he put it in Nature, gods "in ruins," led to one of transcendentalism's defining events, his delivery of an "Address" at the Harvard Divinity School graduation in 1838. | | | She finds an attractive contrast in the German tradition that begins with Leibniz and culminates in Kant, which asserts the power and authority of the mind. | | | The transcendentalists had several publishing outlets: at first The Christian Examiner, then, after the furor over the "Divinity School Address," The Western Messenger (1835-41) in St Louis, then the Boston Quarterly Review (1838-44), and especially, The Dial (1840-4). |
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| | Amos Bronson Alcott: Transcendentalism |
| | Among other things, it is a belief that the world and everything in it has a spiritual basis, and that God speaks directly to human beings through intuition as well as through nature. | | | On the other hand, when the word is used in a very strict sense, it is possible to exclude from the transcendental movement many of the avowed Transcendentalists themselves. | | | It is not connected with any form of meditation. |
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| | American Transcendentalism |
| | This knowledge was the voice of God within Man. It was central to the Transcendentalists' belief that the child was born with an ability to tell right from wrong. | | | I do not think they meant that a babe left in the woods would survive to become a new Plato, but rather that people are capable of discovering a truth solely on the basis of intuition. | | | More than 150 years ago, a group of people began a new movement when they grew weary of the Unitarian Church. |
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| | transcendentalism - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | Life...piece that he first set forth the main principles of transcendentalism, expressing a firm belief in the mystical unity of nature... | | | Transcendentalism derived some of its basic idealistic concepts from...Indian and Chinese religious teachings. | | | According to Lynn Garrett, religion editor of Publishers Weekly, the New Age label includes: New Thought (Transcendentalism), channeling, astrology, self-help gurus such as Deepak Chopra, Indian spirituality, Wicca (white witchcraft), A Course... |
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| | Transcendentalism |
| | Transcendentalism, in addition to being a somewhat mystical philosophy, was also an idealistic one because of the belief that nature need not exist independently of the mind in order to serve its purpose. | | | It is easy to live in the world after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. | | | Coleridge defined understanding as the uncertain knowledge of appearances of objects in nature, and he defined reason as the a priori knowledge of necessary truths gained through intuition. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Transcendentalism |
| | He brought to the problems of philosophy a highly spiritual imaginativeness and a scientific insight into nature which were lacking in Kant, the critic of knowledge, and Fiche, the exponent of romantic personalize. | | | I am I, the original identity of self with itself, is the expression of the highest metaphysical truth. | | | The transcendentals are notions, such as unity, truth, goodness, being, which are wider than the categories, and, going beyond them, are said to transcend them. |
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| | Transcendentalism Summary & Essays - n/a |
| | The nineteenth century was a volatile one, beginning with the hope and promise of democracy and the development of an American identity and moving towards mass devastation and division by the middle of the century. | | | When a group of Boston ministers, one of whom was Ralph Waldo Emerson, decided that the Unitarian Church had become too conservative, they espoused a new religious philosophy, one which privileged the inherent wisdom in the human soul over church doctrine and law. | | | A religious, philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism arose in New England in the middle of the nineteenth century. |
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| | Transcendentalism |
| | Their transcendentalism seemed to be more of a combination of intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual attributes. | | | James Freemen Clarke, a member, later said, "We are called like-minded because no two of us think alike." This might have been a facetious statement, but it was not groundless. | | | He wrote, "It is better...to look upon external beauty as Michelangelo did, as 'the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul, which he had called into time.'" |
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| | He was criticizing Transcendentalism, held by Emerson and others, wishing “to illustrate the dangers of the intellectual arrogance which falsely persuaded individual human beings that they could seek and find their own deity, ignoring the Church and religious tradition” (274). | | | Also, suspicious of the intellect and believing that the only path to faith was through emotional commitment, Kingsley was attacking the Tractarians and converts like Newman whom he held were “groping in the dead past for outworn dogmas and practices” (275). | | | Alton Locke; Dissent; Transcendentalism; Dickens; Social and Political Views. |
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| | Transcendentalism |
| | We have every day occasion to remark its perfect identity, under whatever new phraseology or application to new facts, with the liberal thought of all men of a religious and contemplative habit in other times and countries. | | | "All the peculiarities of the theology, denominated Trinitarian, are directly or indirectly transcendental. | | | Trinitarians, whose whole system from beginning to end is transcendental, ideal, — an idea is the highest truth, — war against the very foundations of whatever is transcendental, ideal; all must be empiric, sensuous, inductive. |
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| | Transcendentalism, by Theodore Parker |
| | It was the first time I had ever seen the word in print, and I never yet have heard it pronounced except by myself, with the accent on the second syllable, Trans-cend-ent-al-ism. | | | That I have dared to tread this holy ground. | | | Now one of my most remarkable visions occurred after this wise. |
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| | Transcendentalism/Literary Development of Transcendentalism |
| | , come the definitions of the New England transcendentalism and anti-transcendentalism. | | | In the essay "The Transcendentalist," Emerson wrote, "[Kant showed] that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which do not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and he denominated them Transcendental forms." According to Emerson's understanding of Kant, | | | Anti-transcendentalism was the opposite, in which they defy transcendentalism as "the universal and timeless." The development of the New England literature of transcendentalism was the bonding of several systems of beliefs of transcendentalism across the world to form one idea that is accepted today. |
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| | Transcendentalism - Definitions |
| | 2: a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical | | | And in this sense the word transcendentalism is now most used. | | | The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature, in Europe and America, to that extent, that whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought, is popularly called at the present day Transcendental...." |
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| | Transcendentalism |
| | They believed in: (1) divine immanence (2) intuitive perception (3) rejection of external authority and (4) a radical social ethic. | | | It choose, instead, to focus on the moral sense of a person, on their intuitional faculty. | | | When he discovered the children knew nothing about their birth, much less God, he tried to assist their memories by filling in the details of conception and birth which led to a storm of debate in Boston. |
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| | ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture |
| | Note: Because of the importance of this article to the lesson plan, the entire article has been made available. | | | Explain the historical connection between the two writers: Emerson as teacher and Thoreau as practitioner. | | | To achieve this goal, the individual had to seek spiritual, not material, greatness and the essential truths of life through intuition. |
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| | George Ripley |
| | In all his writing and preaching, he embraced a view of religious truth as "intuitive" rather than empirical and championed the new waves of liberal religious thinking coming out of Europe, represented in the works of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Victor Cousin and others. | | | In the 1830s the theological ferment among the younger generation of Unitarian ministers coalesced into the "new views" of Transcendentalism. | | | The terms of their disput helped to define Transcendentalism and changed the course of Unitarian theological development. |
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| | transcendentalism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | TRANSCENDENTALISM : Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info] | | | transcendentalism : A Word A Day [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "transcendentalism" is defined. |
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| | Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Humanities /Philosophy /Transcendentalism / |
| | A definition of Transcendentalism, an important philosophical, religious, and literary movement of the early 19th century in the US. | | | Essay on the religious context and origins of Transcendentalism | | | Extensive webliography, emphasizing the literary aspects of transcendentalism |
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| | Transcendentalism Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | Transcendentalism is a conglomeration of similar, but diverse ideas about literature, religion, culture and philosophy. | | | Transcendentalism itself is difficult to define concisely, due to the diverse expressions of those involved in the movement. | | | The term Transcendentalism was derived from the philosopher Immanuel Kant, who called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects." Ralph Waldo Emerson formulated and expressed the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature. |
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| | §1. New England Transcendentalism a Phase of World-Wide Movement. VIII. Transcendentalism. Vol. 15. Colonial and ... |
| | transcendentalism was a late and local manifestation of that great movement for the liberation of humanity which, invading practically every sphere of civilized activity, swept over Europe at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. | | | New England Transcendentalism a Phase of World-Wide Movement. | | | With the fading of the Renaissance, Europe had passed into an age of criticism, during which all it had inherited and achieved in the preceding era was subjected to the test of reason. |
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| | Transcendentalism was a reaction to an impoverishment of religion and mec | | | Transcendentalism was a movement in philosophy, literature, and religion that emerged and was popular in the nineteenth century New England because of a need to redefine man and his place in the world in response to a new and changing society. | | | The industrial revolution, universities, westward expansion, urbanization and immigration all made the life in a city like Boston full of novelty and turbulence. |
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| | TRANSCENDENTALISM - LoveToKnow Article on TRANSCENDENTALISM |
| | Thus ens (being) is more universal than God or the physical universe because it can be predicated of both. | | | The most famous example of the pseudo-philosophic use of the term is for a movement of thought which was prominent in the New England states from about 1830 to 1850. | | | The term is specially applied to Kant's philosophy and its successors which hold that knowledge of the a priori is possible. |
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| | Transcendentalism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Brownson was born on Sept. 16, 1803, in Stockbridge, Vt. He was ordained as a minister in both the Universalist church and the Unitarian church but became an independent... | | | Kant's transcendentalism is set in contrast to those of two of his predecessors—the problematic idealism of René... | | | He was a man unto himself who looked at society and government and found them lacking in nearly every respect. |
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| | Book Report on Transcendentalism |
| | Transcendentalism was a literary movement in the first half of the 19th century. | | | One achieved this through many different ways, ways that are explained and discussed in the three works mentioned before. | | | Transcendentalism was a fundamental movement that was forever immortalized by innovative authors and works of literature. |
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| | The Transcendentalist |
| | The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity. | | | Shall we say, then, that Transcendentalism is the Saturnalia or excess of Faith; the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish. | | | Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him in chemistry, and tree, and animal, and in the involuntary functions of his own body; yet he is balked when he tries to fling himself into this enchanted circle, where all is done without degradation. |
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| | The Catholic Encyclopedia - Transcendentalism for the scholastics in the loosest and strictest sense | | | The Catholic Encyclopedie - Transcendentalism for the scholastics in the loosest and strictest sense | | | American Transcendentalism - Founded in the early to middle years of the nineteenth century, American Transcendentalism was an important movement in philosphy and literature. |
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| | Bloomsbury.com - Research centre |
| | Its essential statement was that there was no need for organized religion, for intercessors between humankind and God. | | | Although the Utopian communities founded by the transcendentalists were themselves short-lived, the idea rooted itself deeply in the self-awareness of immigrant Americans, and led, some historians say, to the feelings of drive, self-help and organization which have been ever since claimed as unifying virtues of the USA. | | | Transcendentalism was an idea put forward in 1840s New England by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others, and promoted in Emerson's book Nature. |
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| | LitKicks: Transcendental America |
| | Finally, here's an essay about God that was born in the message board for this section. | | | This movement became known as American (or, New England) Transcendentalism. | | | American Transcendentalism also formed the prototype for numerous American counter-cultural literary movements to follow, including the Harlem Renaissance and the Beat Generation. |
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| | In one way or another our most creative minds were drawn into its thrall, attracted not only to its practicable messages of confident self-identity, spiritual progress and social justice, but also by its aesthetics, which celebrated, in landscape and mindscape, the immense grandeur of the American soul. | | | By meditation, by communing with nature, through work and art, man could transcend his senses and attain an understanding of beauty and goodness and truth. | | | Even those artists of the American Renaissance who would find difficulty with the optimism of the Transcendentalists--Hawthorne and Melville among them--would be forced to focus on and respond to the existential issues the movement raised. |
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| | In certain respects Transcendentalism was designed to be a sort of American-style natural religion. | | | Transcendentalism is more an outlook or frame of mind than an actual philosophy--though it is still possible to identify a few basic beliefs and fundamental principles. | | | The closest thing to a definition of the movement appears in Emerson's 1842 essay "The Transcendentalist," which proclaims not only what Transcendentalism is ("Transcendentalism. |
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| | Also: consult the online bookstore for books on Transcendentalism available online. | | | Bibliographies: online lists of books and articles, helpful for doing more detailed research at libraries. | | | Encyclopedias: some online encyclopedias include summaries of Transcendentalism; I've included the best of those. |
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| | Transcendentalism Arts, Directory |
| | American Transcendentalism Focuses on 19th century American Transcendentalism and the revelance of the movement in the present. | | | American Transcendentalism at Gonzaga University Features a description of transcendentalism, definitions, bibliography and links. | | | American Transcendentalism Site includes a selected bibliography and links to major writers in transcendentalism. |
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| | The Women of Transcendentalism Part 2: Harriet Martineau, the Peabody sisters, Julia Ward Howe | | | Emerson and other Transcendentalists supposedly "ruined" American education by removing Christianity from the center | | | Ralph Waldo Emerson Home Page, this page has been helping students and others with their web research since 1995, and has been highlighted by many literature, history, and philosophy web sites. |
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary ... |
| | The Transcendentalist movement was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and a manifestation of the general humanitarian trend of 19th century thought. | | | Emerson, who moved to Concord in 1834, and Thoreau are most closely associated with the town, but the locale also attracted the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, the feminist writer Margaret Fuller, the educator (and father of novelist Louisa May Alcott) Bronson Alcott, and the poet William Ellery Channing. | | | The Transcendental Club was loosely organized in 1836 and included, at various times, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Channing, Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson (a leading minister), Theodore Parker (abolitionist and minister), and others. |
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| | These notions are transcendental in that they have a higher order of existence than what we experience directly in the physical world. | | | was derived from the philosopher Immanuel Kant, who called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects." It is a philosophy based on his statement that some notions (such as space/time, morality, and divinity) cannot be directly experienced, yet still add to empirical knowledge. | | | In this 21st Century, the Age of Technology |
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http://www.transcendentalism.us
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| | But the voice that seemed to emerge from this cacophony most persuasively for Ripley and many others was that of the French social theorist Charles Fourier, whose work, translated and expounded by a passionate American follower Charles Brisbane, became a focal point for New England utopian theorizing and experimentation. | | | Clearly he was interested, and from motives of both friendship and a desire for the public relations triumph that Emerson's membership in the community would have meant, Ripley worked hard to persuade him to join. | | | In this sense, much of the energy that Emerson and other Transcendentalists devoted to antislavery thought and work were utopian, in that the abolition of slavery was indeed a transformation of the historical-social order of the nineteenth century. |
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http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/philosophy/club/utopia/utopian-visions/robinson-lec.html
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