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Transcendentalists

Transcendentalists. Alone with Nature. What is Transcendentalism?. Tenets (Beliefs) Truth is in nature Everyone can get it Social knowledge different than individual knowledge Society can and will improve Individual has effect on community Non-conformity Self-reliance Authors: Emerson

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Transcendentalists

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  1. Transcendentalists Alone with Nature

  2. What is Transcendentalism? • Tenets (Beliefs) • Truth is in nature • Everyone can get it • Social knowledge different than individual knowledge • Society can and will improve • Individual has effect on community • Non-conformity • Self-reliance • Authors: • Emerson • Thoreau • Fuller

  3. Historical Context • 1830s-1860s • Mexican American War • Civil War • Centered at Harvard University • Inspired by German Philosopher Immanuel Kant • Originally Transcendentalism used as a put-down. They like it so it stays as their title

  4. Henry David Thoreau • 1817-1862 • Upbringing: • Parents owned a little store • They worked as pencil makers • Education • Harvard • Labeled as failure

  5. Henry David Thoreau • Activist and Intellectual • “We need to” • Wants change in individual • Tree hugger • Significant works: • Resistance to Civil Government • Walden • Slavery in Massachusetts

  6. Ralph Waldo Emerson • Education • Mary Moody Emerson (aunt) in charge • Wanted to go to Harvard • Anti-Slavery • Self-Reliance • Man is disunited with self until one with nature • Nature is a symbol of your spirit • Anti-Institutionalism • Change in individual will result in change of society

  7. Margaret Fuller • Education • Educated by father who was a lawyer at Cambridge • Would educate other women through “conversations” she published • Journalism • She writes for “The Dial” a Transcendentalist newspaper • Writes about women’s rights • “The Great Lawsuit: Men vs. Men and Women vs. Women” • “Women in the Nineteenth Century” • Death • Dies with her family in a shipwreck off of New York • Just returning from revolution in Italy

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