transcendentalism

(noun)

A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the nineteenth century whose members were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on the belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

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  • cholera
  • rationalism
  • Anthracite coal
  • Fugitive Slave Law
  • American Romanticism
  • emotions
  • Calvinism
  • Second Great Awakening
  • existentialism
  • nationalism
  • utopian

(noun)

A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the nineteenth century who were loosely bound together by an adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on the belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Related Terms

  • anarchism
  • liberalism
  • Emerson's greatest expression of individualism is contained in his essay Self-Reliance. It contains his
  • cholera
  • rationalism
  • Anthracite coal
  • Fugitive Slave Law
  • American Romanticism
  • emotions
  • Calvinism
  • Second Great Awakening
  • existentialism
  • nationalism
  • utopian

(noun)

A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on the belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Related Terms

  • anarchism
  • liberalism
  • Emerson's greatest expression of individualism is contained in his essay Self-Reliance. It contains his
  • cholera
  • rationalism
  • Anthracite coal
  • Fugitive Slave Law
  • American Romanticism
  • emotions
  • Calvinism
  • Second Great Awakening
  • existentialism
  • nationalism
  • utopian

Examples of transcendentalism in the following topics:

  • Transcendentalism

    • Transcendentalism, America's first notable philosophical movement, emphasized the inherent goodness of both man and nature.
    • Transcendentalism was America's first notable intellectual and philosophical movement.
    • The publication of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1836 essay Natureis usually considered the watershed moment at which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement.
    • In the same year, transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836, by prominent New England intellectuals including Emerson, George Putnam, and Frederick Henry Hedge.
    • The transcendentalists desired to ground their religion and philosophy in transcendental principles.
  • Movements and Reforms

    • Transcendentalism was among the more radical social philosophies of the nineteenth century.
    • Transcendentalism was America's first notable intellectual and philosophical movement.
    • The publication of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1836 essay "Nature" is usually considered the watershed moment at which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement.
    • In the same year, on September 8 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club by prominent New England intellectuals including Emerson, George Putnam, and Frederick Henry Hedge.
    • In his 1842 lecture "The Transcendentalist," Emerson suggested that the goal of a purely transcendental outlook on life was impossible to attain in practice.
  • The Emergence of "American" Literature

    • Matthiessen), this period encompasses (approximately) the 1820s to the dawn of the Civil War, and it has been closely identified with American romanticism and transcendentalism.
    • The writers and thinkers devoted to transcendentalism, as well as the reactions against it, created a trove of writings, an outpouring that became what has now been termed the "American Renaissance."
    • Many writers were drawn to transcendentalism, and they started to express its ideas through new stories, poems, essays, and articles.
    • The ideas of transcendentalism were able to permeate American thought and culture through a prolific print culture, which allowed the wide dissemination of magazines and journals.
    • These American writers who questioned transcendentalism illustrate the underlying tension between individualism and conformity in American life.
  • Individualism

    • Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, poet, and leader of Transcendentalism in the mid-19th century.
    • He formulated and expressed the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature (1836).
  • Emerson and Thoreau

    • Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature.
  • Romanticism in America

    • The Romantic movement gave rise to New England transcendentalism, which portrayed a less restrictive relationship between God and the universe.
    • Transcendentalism and Romanticism appealed to Americans in a similar fashion; both privileged feeling over reason and individual freedom of expression over the restraints of tradition and custom.
  • Industrialization and the Environment

    • Transcendentalism, an intellectual movement of the 1830s and 1840s, elevated nature in popular poems, stories, and essays of the time.
  • Women and Democracy

    • Sarah Margaret Fuller wrote "Women in the Nineteenth Century," an early consideration of feminism, and edited The Dial for the Transcendental Club.
  • Conclusion: A Maturing Society

  • Newspapers

    • During this time, workingmen were questioning the justice of existing economic systems and raising a new labor issues; Unitarianism and transcendentalism were creating and expressing new spiritual values; temperance, prohibition, and the political status of women were being discussed; and abolitionists were growing more vocal, becoming the subject of controversy most critically related to journalism.
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