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Transcendentalism
Also Known As New England Transcendentalism
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A New England movement of the 1830s and 1840s holding that the divine is known directly, through intuition and through nature, rather than through miracle, scripture or church authority. It grew out of and against Unitarianism, organized loosely around the Transcendental Club (first meeting 1836) and the periodical The Dial (1840-1844), and drew, through translation, on German idealism, Plato and Neoplatonism, and the Bhagavad Gita. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature (1836) is its founding statement and his 1838 Divinity School Address its most contested one.
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End YearNo sharp close; the Transcendental Club and The Dial had dissolved by the mid-1840s, and the movement's active decade is usually given as the 1830s-1840s. 1860 marks Emerson's last major collection in the movement's idiom, The Conduct of Life, not a formal end. RegionNew England, chiefly Boston and Concord, Massachusetts 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationIn Branch: Metaphysics, s.v. TranscendentalismView the Source 1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationFounded By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, entry: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature, 1836View the Source 1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationAssociated With: Henry David Thoreau, entry: Henry David ThoreauView the Source 1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationAssociated With: Margaret Fuller, entry: Margaret FullerView the Source 1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationAssociated With: Bronson Alcott, entry: TranscendentalismView the Source 1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationAssociated With: Theodore Parker, entry: TranscendentalismView the Source Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
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