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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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century organization
discussion group
intellectual circle
philosophical society
basedOn Eastern religious ideas (indirectly through members)
German idealism
Romanticism
country United States
dissolved early 1840s
fieldOfWork literature
philosophy
religion
social reform
genre philosophical discussion
hasMember Bronson Alcott
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
hasPurpose critique of Unitarian orthodoxy
discussion of transcendentalist ideas
exploration of intuition and spiritual experience
promotion of transcendentalism
inception 1836
influenced American literature
American philosophy
American religious thought
language English
locatedIn Boston
New England
mainSubject Transcendentalist philosophy
individualism
nature and spirituality
religious reform
social reform
meetingPlace Boston, Massachusetts
Concord, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
movement Transcendentalism
notableWork The Dial
religiousOrientation Unitarian context
significantEvent informal founding meeting in 1836 in Boston
timePeriod 19th century

Referenced by (7)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Bronson Alcott ("New England Transcendentalist circle")
George Ripley
Sophia Peabody ("Transcendentalist circle")
Theodore Parker
memberOf
Transcendentalism
associatedOrganization
Margaret Fuller
associatedWith
Elizabeth Peabody ("American Transcendentalist circle")
partOf

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