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Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism . . . . is “a loose collection of eclectic ideas about literature, philosophy, religion, social reform, and the general state of American culture”. flourished in Concord and Boston during the 19 th Century.

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Transcendentalism

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  1. Transcendentalism

  2. Transcendentalism . . . • is “a loose collection of eclectic ideas about literature, philosophy, religion, social reform, and the general state of American culture”. • flourished in Concord and Boston during the 19th Century. • had a dramatic and lasting impact on American literature and culture.

  3. Major Tenets • The individual is important, inherently good, and has free will. • Conscience, intuition, and morality are present at birth. • “Truth” about the universe and mankind’s place in it lies beyond our physical senses. • Individuals must use their intuition to “transcend” sensory knowledge to perceive this truth.

  4. Basic Belief System • self-reliance • self-discipline • individuality • simplicity

  5. Transcendentalism's Influence Then & Now • Abolition (Anti-Slavery Movement) • Utopianism (Creation of a perfect society) • Women’s Suffrage and Equal Rights • Environmentalism • Civil Rights Movement (Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.) • American Literature (Emily Dickinson and F. Scott Fitzgerald)

  6. Major Transcendentalists • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Henry David Thoreau

  7. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion: it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is one in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the integrity of the soul.” – Self-Reliance

  8. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps he hears a different drummer.” – Walden

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