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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All labels observed (17)

Label	Occurrences
Transcendentalism canonical	119
American Transcendentalism	25
New England Transcendentalism	12
Transcendentalist movement	9
American Transcendentalist movement	7
American transcendentalism	7
American transcendentalist movement	2
New England Transcendentalists	2
American_Transcendentalism	1
Christian transcendentalism	1
New England Transcendentalist milieu	1
New England Transcendentalist movement	1
New England transcendentalism	1
New England transcendentalists	1
Self-Reliance	1
Transcendentalism (influenced)	1
Transcendentalism (via family association)	1

Statements (65)

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 ⓘ surface form: Nature (essay) Self-Reliance ⓘ Walden; or, Life in the Woods ⓘ surface form: 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 of America ⓘ surface form: 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 Peabody ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ surface form: 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 (192)

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Henry David Thoreau → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

American Romantic nationalism → relatedTo → Transcendentalism ⓘ

American literature → hasMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Ralph Waldo Emerson → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Ralph Waldo Emerson → notableWork → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Self-Reliance

Civil Disobedience → philosophicalMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

American Renaissance → hasPart → Transcendentalism ⓘ

The Maine Woods → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Beat Generation → influencedBy → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Leaves of Grass → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Louisa May Alcott → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Emily Dickinson → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Concord, Massachusetts → associatedWith → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Walt Whitman → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

The Wayside (historic house in Concord) → associatedWith → Transcendentalism ⓘ

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Nature → mainSubject → Transcendentalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Nature (essay)

this entity surface form: American Transcendentalism

Nature → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Nature (essay)

Nature → influenced → Transcendentalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Nature (essay)

this entity surface form: American Transcendentalism

Nature → associatedWith → Transcendentalism ⓘ

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this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism

The American Scholar → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

The American Scholar → influenced → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Transcendentalist movement

Essays: First Series → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Essays: First Series → associatedWith → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism

Representative Men → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Society and Solitude → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

English Traits → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

The Conduct of Life → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

The Conduct of Life → influencedBy → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism

Edward Waldo Emerson → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American transcendentalism

Essays: Second Series → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Essays: Second Series → influencedBy → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Elizabeth Peabody → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

The Ponds → literaryMovement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Ralph → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

subject surface form: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States → significantFor → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Transcendentalist movement

Sophia Peabody → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

New England life → hasCulturalInfluence → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism

Theodore Parker → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

the Over-Soul → partOf → Transcendentalism ⓘ

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the Over-Soul → associatedWith → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalism

Margaret Fuller → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Self-Reliance → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Transcendentalism

Self-Reliance → philosophicalCurrent → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Self-Reliance → associatedWith → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: New England Transcendentalists

Woman in the Nineteenth Century → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American transcendentalism

Transcendental Club → movement → Transcendentalism ⓘ

Transcendental Club → hasParticipant → Transcendentalism ⓘ

this entity surface form: New England transcendentalists