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.

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 ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson relocated to Concord, Mass., in 1834 to live with the Rev. Ezra Ripley, his step-grandfather. On July 4, 1837, at the dedication of a monument to the Battle of Concord, a chorus ...

(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” ...

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

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 ...

So goes a story about the Transcendentalists and my world. Reading Thoreau signaled, for me, the kind of intellectual loftiness I desperately longed for as a child of the uncultured American suburbs.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By John Williams THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS AND THEIR WORLD By Robert A. Gross The “great man” theory of ...

The Trascendentalists wear their spiritualism on their collective sleeves. The ensemble’s name and songbook suggest easy fodder for naysayers and skeptics, but it’s in the straightforward emotion and ...