LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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the “unsatisfactory” state of American thought
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spying from the government
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s dismissal from Harvard
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academic campuses that were too stuck in the past and in tradition
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Detailed explanation-1: -More specifically, the impulse behind the Transcendental Club was a protest against the arid intellectual climate of Harvard and Cambridge. President Quincy had his eye on the past.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalism has its origins in New England of the early 1800s and the birth of Unitarianism. It was born from a debate between “New Light” theologians, who believed that religion should focus on an emotional experience, and “Old Light” opponents, who valued reason in their religious approach.
Detailed explanation-3: -“The Transcendental Club, ” as it would come to be known, was founded in Massachusetts, in September of 1836, by prominent New England intellectuals.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Transcendental Club was a group of New England authors, philosophers, socialists, politicians and intellectuals of the early-to-mid-19th century which gave rise to Transcendentalism.