Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as ...

(RNS) The author of 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods,' who was born 200 years ago this week, was a Transcendentalist. Let us 'Splain . . . (RNS) — The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do” ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Christie Jackson, senior curator of the Trustees of Reservations gave a tour of the Old Manse in Concord, MA. She spoke about Ralph Waldo Emerson and ...

Intellectual ferment and social turmoil characterized America in the mid-19th century. Transcendentalism, an intentionally nebulous philosophy that asserted the primacy of individual consciousness ...

Transcendentalism is the best-known American-bred philosophy, despite the fact that most well-educated Americans have no clear idea what it is. This haziness is nothing new — even in Transcendentalism ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Connecticut professor emeritus Robert Gross talked about transcendentalism and its implications. University of Connecticut professor ...

It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.

Barbour, B. M. Introduction.--Bowers, D. Democratic vistas.--Carpenter, F. I. Transcendentalism.--Hochfield, G. An introduction to transcendentalism.--Tanner, T ...

What the Great Awakening was for evangelical America, the transcendentalist movement was for liberal Protestants and even secular Americans. An outburst of emotional passion and conviction transformed ...

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