transcendentalism
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tran·scen·den·tal·ism
/ ˌtranˌsenˈdentlˌizəm/
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n.
1. (Transcendentalism)
an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
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a system developed by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature of experience.
DERIVATIVES:
tran·scen·den·tal·ist
(also Tran·scen·den·tal·ist) n. & adj.
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Translating transcendentalism: a transcontinental revelation of Emersonian enthusiasm/transandantalizmi cevirmek: Emersonyen coskunun kitalararasi bir esinlenmesi.
Magazine article from: Interactions; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Abstract: Readers of nineteenth century transcendentalism are familiar with the image of Emerson...The connotations associated with transcendentalism are not limited to nineteenth century...nineteenth century America. Keywords: Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Immanuel...
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The reception of American transcendentalism in Russia.
Magazine article from: American Studies International; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the first appraisal of American transcendentalism in Russian scholarship appeared as...were discontinued. His chapter on transcendentalism presented a consistent review of...as "erroneous." He referred to transcendentalism as a "Romantic reaction against...
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Transcendentalism, ancient and modern: Brownson versus Emerson.(Orestes Brownson, Ralph Waldo Emerson)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...became a strenuous critic of transcendentalism, particularly for its tendencies...democratic realism, individualism, transcendentalism ********** Perry Miller has written that transcendentalism is not so much a literary or...
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American Transcendentalism and the revolution within.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 1/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of North Carolina, with American Transcendentalism, a solid, informative, and readable...first to agree that definitions of Transcendentalism are slippery, particularly as the...outset, in the 1830s, Gura says Transcendentalism coalesced around "a way of perceiving...
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Woman thinking; feminism and transcendentalism in nineteenth-century America. (reprint, 2005).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 531 words
; ...9780739123249 Woman thinking; feminism and transcendentalism in nineteenth-century America...relationship between feminism and Transcendentalism in the nineteenth century, especially...self-culture and vocation; and Transcendentalism in the 1870s and 1880s as it waned...
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 "ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)")
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"If they have a moral power": Margaret Fuller, transcendentalism, and the question of women's moral nature.
Magazine article from: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly); 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...movie within the context of Transcendentalism, and this scene exemplifies...argument within the context of Transcendentalism. Until only a few decades ago, Fuller's position within Transcendentalism received little attention...
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American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Argumentation and Advocacy; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...American Renaissance, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, New England public life, and Antebellum...innovations helped contribute to Transcendentalism's status as a distinct philosophical...Grodzins observes, "for Parker, Transcendentalism was as least as much a new Reformation...
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Mapping the metaphysical landscape off Cape Ann: The receptions of Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism among the gloucester audience of reverend Amory Dwight Mayo and Fitz Hugh Lane
Magazine article from: Historical Journal of Massachusetts; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...survey of references to Emerson and transcendentalism by Gloucester residents who patronized...intentions. While Lane's thoughts on transcendentalism are unavailable, those of his friends...shall see, outward opposition to transcendentalism in certain social circles was overcome...
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Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 428 words
; 0816056269 Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism. Wayne, Tiffany K. Facts On File, Inc. 2006 374 pages...after the Civil War. Resisting any single definition of Transcendentalism, she includes a range of philosophical, theological...
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American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...American American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism. By Dean Grodzins. (Chapel Hill: The University...39.95.) Among American religious movements, Transcendentalism stirs nearly continual scholarly interest. Intellectualism...
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transcendentalism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
transcendentalism [Lat.,=overpassing], in...humanity and the natural world. Transcendentalism derived some of its basic idealistic...religious teachings. Although transcendentalism was never a rigorously systematic...
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Transcendentalism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
TRANSCENDENTALISM TRANSCENDENTALISM was a movement for religious renewal, literary innovation...existing in various forms from the 1830s to the 1880s, transcendentalism is usually considered the principal expression of romanticism...
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Literature: An American Renaissance
Book article from: American Eras
...Oxford: Facts on File, 1988). Transcendentalism on the Wane. New England Transcendentalism originated in the area around Concord...conventional church. From 1836 through 1855 Transcendentalism developed into a full-scale rejection...
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Romanticism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...from the rise of Bostonian "transcendentalism" in the 1830s. An outgrowth of liberal Christianity, transcendentalism began as occasional meetings...the unofficial "credo" of transcendentalism, from its most influential...
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Edward Estlin Cummings
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...poetry. He worked in the Emersonian tradition of romantic transcendentalism, which encouraged experimentation, and may have been...poetic techniques of symbolism. Early Career Cummings's transcendentalism, which stressed individual feeling over "objective...
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