Maybe relating our fashion choices to dead philosophers can keep us from disastrous consequences. The wake-up call came over the loudspeaker and sank into our barrack’s stone walls. It was still dark ...
In Pragmatism and Feminism (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Purdue philosophy professor Charlene Haddock Seigfried demonstrated the price to pragmatism of a canon that long excluded women thinkers ...
It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Christie Jackson, senior curator of the Trustees of Reservations gave a tour of the Old Manse in Concord, MA. She spoke about Ralph Waldo Emerson and ...
Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as ...
About 50 years after the American Revolution, another revolution, smaller in scale and spiritual in ethos, was afoot in the United States. The movement's call to arms was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 ...
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in ...
Intellectual ferment and social turmoil characterized America in the mid-19th century. Transcendentalism, an intentionally nebulous philosophy that asserted the primacy of individual consciousness ...
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