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Reform as Individual Transformation versus Reform as Systematic Social Change

Reform as Individual Transformation versus Reform as Systematic Social Change. 19 th Century American Transcendentalism Monday, September 27, 2010. Early British Influences. Coleridge: builds of Kant’s notion of “ R eason” (insight), focuses on individual perception

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Reform as Individual Transformation versus Reform as Systematic Social Change

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  1. Reform as Individual Transformation versus Reform as Systematic Social Change 19th Century American Transcendentalism Monday, September 27, 2010

  2. Early British Influences • Coleridge: builds of Kant’s notion of “Reason” (insight), focuses on individual perception • Carlyle: links machine age to “mechanical” philosophy of Locke (he’s also a lapsed Protestant iconoclast like Emerson)

  3. Transcendentalist Realms Opposition from Unitarian Pastorate: Henry Ware, Jr. (1794-1843) Andrews Norton (1786-1853)

  4. The Ripleys at Brook Farm

  5. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonia • Opens in early 1940s with a group of young NYC professionals and is fully settled by late 1950s • Reflects the spirit of the times: the cooperative movement, the unprecedented unity of spirit that accompanied WWII, the Red Scare, and the civil rights movement • Wright’s organic architecture seeks to created a balance between private and communal life, home and environment, local and central government

  6. Theodore Parker • Parker’s influence on Martin Luther King: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129609461&ft=1&f=2

  7. Emerson and American Politics

  8. The Emerson of “Experience” (1844) Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.To each they offer gifts after his will,Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,Forgot my morning wishes, hastilyTook a few herbs and apples, and the DayTurned and departed silent. I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  9. For discussion In a country that advocates absolute freedom of religion, how have religious ideas come into conflict with politics and social justice?

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