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Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. [1] [2] [3] A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, [1] and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, poet and philosopher best known for his contribution to the transcendentalism movement of the mid-19th century. [22] Emerson's spiritual transcendentalism re-emerged in New England following Kant's rational transcendentalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Early in his time at Harvard, he had sided with the administration during a student-led protest against poor food, and his attempts at reconciling the two sides prompted ridicule from his peers. [9] Ripley, seeking a socially useful role, found work as a teacher in Fitchburg during winter vacation of his senior year. [ 10 ]
The decadent movement was a response to the perceived decadence within the earlier Romantic, naturalist and realist movements in France at this time. [52] The decadent movement takes decadence in literature to an extreme, with characters who debase themselves for pleasure, [53] [54] and the use of metaphor, symbolism and language as tools to ...
The club was a meeting-place for these young thinkers and an organizing ground for their idealist frustration with the general state of American culture and society at the time, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University. [citation needed] Much of their thinking centered on the shortcomings of the Unitarian church. [8]
The Transcendentalist is a lecture and essay by American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson.It is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism.
Geologic Time – Period prior to humans. 4.6 billion to 3 million years ago. (See "prehistoric periods" for more detail into this.) Primatomorphid Era – Period prior to the existence of Primatomorpha; Simian Era – Period prior to the existence of Simiiformes; Hominoid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominoidea