Transcendentalism

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19th-century movement American philosophical movement intellectual movement literary movement philosophical movement religious movement

Transcendentalism is a 19th-century American philosophical and literary movement that emphasized individual intuition, spiritual insight, and the inherent goodness of people and nature in opposition to materialism and institutional authority.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	19th-century movement → American philosophical movement → intellectual movement → literary movement → philosophical movement → religious movement →
associatedOrganization	Transcendental Club →
associatedPublication	The Dial →
associatedWork	Civil Disobedience → Nature (essay) → Self-Reliance → Walden → Woman in the Nineteenth Century →
centeredIn	Boston, Massachusetts → Concord, Massachusetts →
coreBelief	immanence of the divine in nature → inherent goodness of nature → inherent goodness of people → moral idealism → nonconformity → primacy of individual intuition → self-reliance → spiritual insight over empirical evidence →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
emphasizes	direct relationship with the divine → education and intellectual growth → individual conscience → nature as a source of truth → personal spiritual experience → social reform →
hasKeyConcept	civil disobedience → correspondence between nature and spirit → inner light → the Over-Soul →
hasKeyFigure	Bronson Alcott → Elizabeth Palmer Peabody → George Ripley → Henry David Thoreau → Margaret Fuller → Orestes Brownson → Ralph Waldo Emerson → Theodore Parker →
influenced	American civil rights activism → American environmental thought → American individualism → American literature → Gandhian nonviolent resistance → abolitionism → social reform movements → women's rights movement →
influencedBy	Eastern religions → German Idealism → Hindu philosophy → Immanuel Kant → Platonism → Romanticism → Unitarianism →
language	English →
mainRegion	New England →
opposes	institutional authority → materialism → orthodox Calvinism → strict rationalism →
periodOfActivity	1830s → 1840s →

Referenced by (68)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bronson Alcott → Edward Waldo Emerson ("American transcendentalism") → Elizabeth Peabody → Emily Dickinson → Essays: Second Series → George Ripley → Henry David Thoreau → Louisa May Alcott → Margaret Fuller → Nature (essay) → O Captain! My Captain! ("American Transcendentalism") → Orestes Brownson ("New England Transcendentalism") → Ralph Waldo Emerson → Ralph Waldo Emerson → Self-Reliance ("American Transcendentalism") → Society and Solitude → Sophia Peabody → The American Scholar → The Dial → Theodore Parker → Transcendental Club → Walt Whitman → When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d → Woman in the Nineteenth Century ("American transcendentalism") →	movement
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers → Crossing Brooklyn Ferry → English Traits → Essays: First Series → I Sing the Body Electric → Leaves of Grass → Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ("Transcendentalism (influenced)") → Representative Men → The Allegash and East Branch → The Conduct of Life → The Maine Woods → The Ponds → The Sleepers → There Was a Child Went Forth → Where I Lived, and What I Lived For →	literaryMovement
Concord, Massachusetts → Essays: First Series ("New England Transcendentalism") → Nature (essay) ("New England Transcendentalism") → Self-Reliance ("New England Transcendentalists") → The Dial ("New England Transcendentalists") → The Wayside → the Over-Soul ("New England Transcendentalism") →	associatedWith
Beat Generation → Essays: Second Series ("New England Transcendentalism") → My First Summer in the Sierra → Orestes Brownson → The Conduct of Life ("New England Transcendentalism") →	influencedBy
Nature (essay) ("American Transcendentalism") → The American Scholar ("American Transcendentalist movement") →	influenced
George Ripley ("American Transcendentalist movement") → Orestes Brownson ("American Transcendentalist movement") →	participantIn
American Romantic nationalism → the Over-Soul ("American Transcendentalism") →	relatedTo
New England life ("New England Transcendentalism") →	hasCulturalInfluence
American literature →	hasMovement
American Renaissance →	hasPart
Transcendental Club ("New England transcendentalists") →	hasParticipant
Nature (essay) ("American Transcendentalism") →	mainSubject
Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Self-Reliance") →	notableWork
the Over-Soul →	partOf
Self-Reliance →	philosophicalCurrent
Civil Disobedience →	philosophicalMovement
Orestes Brownson →	religion
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States ("Transcendentalist movement") →	significantFor