Transcendentalism

American philosopher (1803–1882)

concept designating the extra-categorical attributes of beings

town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States

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. A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday. They thought of physical and spiritual phenomena as part of dynamic processes rather than as discrete entities.

American Unitarian clergyman (1780–1842)

American painter and performance artist (born 1953)

species of plant

intentional community

American landscape painting style of the 1850s – 1870s

American philosopher (1835–1909)

American activist (1803–1876)

book by Thomas Carlyle

Charles Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass, 1840–60

Transcendentalist magazine intermittently published 1840-1929

essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, book critic, transcendentalist, and Zionist

commune in Massachusetts