A New England movement of the 1830s and 1840s holding that the divine is known directly, through intuition and through nature, rather than through miracle, scripture or church authority. It grew out of and against Unitarianism, organized loosely around the Transcendental Club (first meeting 1836) and the periodical The Dial (1840-1844), and drew, through translation, on German idealism, Plato and Neoplatonism, and the Bhagavad Gita. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature (1836) is its founding statement and his 1838 Divinity School Address its most contested one.
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Founded DateSourced to the subject's own accountSeptember 12, 1836 marks the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the event that made transcendentalism a coherent organized movement per this citation; matches this entity's own start-year fact of 1836. End YearNo sharp close; the Transcendental Club and The Dial had dissolved by the mid-1840s, and the movement's active decade is usually given as the 1830s-1840s. 1860 marks Emerson's last major collection in the movement's idiom, The Conduct of Life, not a formal end. RegionNew England, chiefly Boston and Concord, Massachusetts 1 Connections
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information- In Branch: Metaphysics, s.v. Transcendentalism
- Founded By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, entry: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature, 1836
- Associated With: Henry David Thoreau, entry: Henry David Thoreau
- Associated With: Margaret Fuller, entry: Margaret Fuller
- Associated With: Bronson Alcott, entry: Transcendentalism
- Associated With: Theodore Parker, entry: Transcendentalism
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WikipediaTranscendental Club sectionQuote, Transcendental Club section
Transcendentalism became a coherent movement and a sacred organization with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 12, 1836, by prominent New England intellectuals, including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederic Henry Hedge.
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