Transcendental Club
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The Transcendental Club was a 19th-century intellectual circle in New England that gathered writers and philosophers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to discuss and promote transcendentalist ideas.
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| instanceOf |
19th-century organization
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discussion group → intellectual circle → philosophical society → |
| basedOn |
Eastern religious ideas (indirectly through members)
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German idealism → Romanticism → |
| country |
United States
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| dissolved |
early 1840s
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| fieldOfWork |
literature
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philosophy → religion → social reform → |
| genre |
philosophical discussion
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| hasMember |
Bronson Alcott
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Elizabeth Peabody → Frederic Henry Hedge → George Ripley → Henry David Thoreau → Henry Hedge → James Freeman Clarke → Margaret Fuller → Orestes Brownson → Ralph Waldo Emerson → Theodore Parker → |
| hasParticipant |
New England transcendentalists
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| hasPurpose |
critique of Unitarian orthodoxy
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discussion of transcendentalist ideas → exploration of intuition and spiritual experience → promotion of transcendentalism → |
| inception |
1836
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| influenced |
American literature
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American philosophy → American religious thought → |
| language |
English
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| locatedIn |
Boston
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New England → |
| mainSubject |
Transcendentalist philosophy
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individualism → nature and spirituality → religious reform → social reform → |
| meetingPlace |
Boston, Massachusetts
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Concord, Massachusetts NERFINISHED → |
| movement |
Transcendentalism
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| notableWork |
The Dial
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| religiousOrientation |
Unitarian context
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| significantEvent |
informal founding meeting in 1836 in Boston
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| timePeriod |
19th century
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Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Bronson Alcott
("New England Transcendentalist circle")
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George Ripley → Sophia Peabody ("Transcendentalist circle") → Theodore Parker → |
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Transcendentalism
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Margaret Fuller
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Elizabeth Peabody
("American Transcendentalist circle")
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