Right, it grew out of the Protestant Reformation in Europe and, like the Congregationalists, is connected to the earliest New England colonists.
John Quincy Adams was one.
Most USAmericans would know the Universalists from reading American Transcendentalists in eleventh grade.
John Quincy Adams was one.
Most USAmericans would know the Universalists from reading American Transcendentalists in eleventh grade.
January 11, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Right, it grew out of the Protestant Reformation in Europe and, like the Congregationalists, is connected to the earliest New England colonists.
John Quincy Adams was one.
Most USAmericans would know the Universalists from reading American Transcendentalists in eleventh grade.
John Quincy Adams was one.
Most USAmericans would know the Universalists from reading American Transcendentalists in eleventh grade.
Fighting for the Higher Law
Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
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Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
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January 11, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Fighting for the Higher Law
Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
www.pennpress.org/978151282682...
Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
www.pennpress.org/978151282682...
Just a little PRF humour, I wonder if this is what Joe Rogan voted for! Okay, maybe we’re not that funny. After all, we’re transcendentalists and psychics!
January 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Just a little PRF humour, I wonder if this is what Joe Rogan voted for! Okay, maybe we’re not that funny. After all, we’re transcendentalists and psychics!
Geologically diverse land and shores, especially where protected and offered as public parks…Transcendentalists and their heirs… altruism and belief in the greater good in people like Jonas Salk, John Muir, Emma Goldman…The spirit of humor, from Keaton to George Carlin, Charles Portis
January 8, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Geologically diverse land and shores, especially where protected and offered as public parks…Transcendentalists and their heirs… altruism and belief in the greater good in people like Jonas Salk, John Muir, Emma Goldman…The spirit of humor, from Keaton to George Carlin, Charles Portis
#parkchat I have loved the transcendentalists since being introduced to them by a very astute junior high literature teacher. I think you cannot read these authors without gaining a love for the out-of-doors.
January 8, 2026 at 2:15 AM
#parkchat I have loved the transcendentalists since being introduced to them by a very astute junior high literature teacher. I think you cannot read these authors without gaining a love for the out-of-doors.
I'm begging for transcendentalists to add an ounce of economics to their politics.
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I'm begging for transcendentalists to add an ounce of economics to their politics.
In my defense we read the great gatsby and the transcendentalists a LOT
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
In my defense we read the great gatsby and the transcendentalists a LOT
You know my theory on this is it’s because capitalism and communism sorted people into binary teams, crowding out Transcendentalism (original, not new age) as the real way. New Transcendentalists like us don’t do teams that way, because it’s synthesis, the true third way.
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
You know my theory on this is it’s because capitalism and communism sorted people into binary teams, crowding out Transcendentalism (original, not new age) as the real way. New Transcendentalists like us don’t do teams that way, because it’s synthesis, the true third way.
I consider you guys among what I call New Transcendentalists, standing apart from the teams stuff of other two ways
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I consider you guys among what I call New Transcendentalists, standing apart from the teams stuff of other two ways
‘Time has vindicated the sense that Susan Howe is more the child of New England Transcendentalists than of international Marxist-materialists.’
Ange Mlinko on Susan Howe’s poetry:
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Ange Mlinko on Susan Howe’s poetry:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ange Mlinko · Scattered Alphabet: On Susan Howe
Reading the work that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of...
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January 2, 2026 at 6:48 PM
‘Time has vindicated the sense that Susan Howe is more the child of New England Transcendentalists than of international Marxist-materialists.’
Ange Mlinko on Susan Howe’s poetry:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ange Mlinko on Susan Howe’s poetry:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
That’s why I say understanding our Transcendentalists is the way and what they took from us. They were figuring out the way to fit it together bsky.app/profile/jody...
Emerson’s Self-Reliance speaks to capitalists because of this but he wasn’t all about free market capitalism and Social Darwinism, quite the opposite
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
That’s why I say understanding our Transcendentalists is the way and what they took from us. They were figuring out the way to fit it together bsky.app/profile/jody...
I'm begging for transcendentalists to add an ounce of environmentalism to their politics.
January 2, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I'm begging for transcendentalists to add an ounce of environmentalism to their politics.
Basically I think how it works is you’re one of what I call New Transcendentalists, who are looking to figure out what’s going in the world sincerely. Most posters, in contrast, are either capitalists or communists trying to argue for their teams.
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Basically I think how it works is you’re one of what I call New Transcendentalists, who are looking to figure out what’s going in the world sincerely. Most posters, in contrast, are either capitalists or communists trying to argue for their teams.
ok, i've got a better understanding of what you're saying. it's just that i had a much more granular experience of getting to know the transcendentalists, so this seems a bit sweeping to me.
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
ok, i've got a better understanding of what you're saying. it's just that i had a much more granular experience of getting to know the transcendentalists, so this seems a bit sweeping to me.
I guess because it doesn’t seem economic to people? But Transcendentalists were abolitionists and there’s economics to that too, just more than the numbers.
December 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I guess because it doesn’t seem economic to people? But Transcendentalists were abolitionists and there’s economics to that too, just more than the numbers.
This isn’t inherently American at all, it’s because they broke our transcendentalist spirit that was strongest in late 1800s (old school, not new age transcendentalists.)
December 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This isn’t inherently American at all, it’s because they broke our transcendentalist spirit that was strongest in late 1800s (old school, not new age transcendentalists.)
Lowell was a contemporary of Poe's. They were both also contemporary to Emerson & Thoreau (the Transcendentalists). Poe & the Transcendentalists despised each other and got in public (via the press) slap-fights; Poe referred to Emerson & Co. as "Frog-Pondians", and they called him "The Jingle Man".
December 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Lowell was a contemporary of Poe's. They were both also contemporary to Emerson & Thoreau (the Transcendentalists). Poe & the Transcendentalists despised each other and got in public (via the press) slap-fights; Poe referred to Emerson & Co. as "Frog-Pondians", and they called him "The Jingle Man".
"John Brown in turn saved Thoreau and his fellow transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Sanborn, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and others..." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/12/29/j...
John Brown in the Adirondacks
No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the mo…
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December 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"John Brown in turn saved Thoreau and his fellow transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Sanborn, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and others..." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/12/29/j...
“The Transcendentalists were serious Neoplatonists; even the most casual reading of Emerson reveals very little daylight between his "Over-Soul" and Plotinus's World Soul ...”
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets (2001).
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets (2001).
December 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
“The Transcendentalists were serious Neoplatonists; even the most casual reading of Emerson reveals very little daylight between his "Over-Soul" and Plotinus's World Soul ...”
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets (2001).
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets (2001).
"Transcendentalists were 19th-century American writers and thinkers (like Emerson & Thoreau) who believed in inherent goodness, the divinity in nature, and that truth is found through intuition and personal experience." 🤔
December 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"Transcendentalists were 19th-century American writers and thinkers (like Emerson & Thoreau) who believed in inherent goodness, the divinity in nature, and that truth is found through intuition and personal experience." 🤔
In the 1880s, the Alcott family used their former home to host a summer philosophy school. Lecturers included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe and other transcendentalists.
We recently digitized materials related to the school: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/509/digitized#
We recently digitized materials related to the school: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/509/digitized#
December 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In the 1880s, the Alcott family used their former home to host a summer philosophy school. Lecturers included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe and other transcendentalists.
We recently digitized materials related to the school: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/509/digitized#
We recently digitized materials related to the school: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/509/digitized#
surprising how useful studio ensemble, algebra, transcendentalists 101 turned out to be in the long run
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
surprising how useful studio ensemble, algebra, transcendentalists 101 turned out to be in the long run
I shouldn't be surprised that transcendentalists have no idea how flour mills work, since transcendentalists don't work lol
December 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I shouldn't be surprised that transcendentalists have no idea how flour mills work, since transcendentalists don't work lol
I sighed at the mention of the Transcendentalists, because my failure to take Emerson seriously continues:
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"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
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December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I sighed at the mention of the Transcendentalists, because my failure to take Emerson seriously continues:
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8/ Blow went abroad to Europe in 1870, along with her mother and siblings. Susan began studying the philosophies of Hegel and the American Transcendentalists while in Europe. Susan came across the kindergarten teaching methods of German idealist and philosopher Friedrich Fröbel.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
8/ Blow went abroad to Europe in 1870, along with her mother and siblings. Susan began studying the philosophies of Hegel and the American Transcendentalists while in Europe. Susan came across the kindergarten teaching methods of German idealist and philosopher Friedrich Fröbel.