ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -: a philosophy that emphasizes the a priori conditions of knowledge and experience or the unknowable character of ultimate reality or that emphasizes the transcendent as the fundamental reality. : a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a group, the transcendentalists led the celebration of the American experiment as one of individualism and self-reliance. They took progressive stands on women’s rights, abolition, reform, and education. They criticized government, organized religion, laws, social institutions, and creeping industrialization.