Transcendental Club

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The Transcendental Club was a 19th-century intellectual circle in New England that gathered writers and philosophers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to discuss and promote transcendentalist ideas.

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instanceOf 19th-century organization
discussion group
intellectual circle
philosophical society
basedOn Eastern religious ideas (indirectly through members)
German idealism
Romanticism
country United States
dissolved early 1840s
fieldOfWork literature
philosophy
religion
social reform
genre philosophical discussion
hasMember Bronson Alcott
Elizabeth Peabody
Frederic Henry Hedge
George Ripley
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Hedge
James Freeman Clarke
Margaret Fuller
Orestes Brownson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Parker
hasParticipant New England transcendentalists
linked to: Transcendentalism
hasPurpose critique of Unitarian orthodoxy
discussion of transcendentalist ideas
exploration of intuition and spiritual experience
promotion of transcendentalism
inception 1836
influenced American literature
American philosophy
American religious thought
language English
locatedIn Boston
New England
mainSubject Transcendentalist philosophy
individualism
nature and spirituality
religious reform
social reform
meetingPlace Boston, Massachusetts
Concord, Massachusetts
movement Transcendentalism
notableWork The Dial
religiousOrientation Unitarian context
significantEvent informal founding meeting in 1836 in Boston
timePeriod 19th century

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Transcendentalism associatedOrganization Transcendental Club
Elizabeth Peabody partOf American Transcendentalist circle
linked to: Transcendental Club
Sophia Peabody memberOf Transcendentalist circle
linked to: Transcendental Club
Theodore Parker memberOf Transcendental Club
Margaret Fuller associatedWith Transcendental Club
Bronson Alcott memberOf New England Transcendentalist circle
linked to: Transcendental Club
George Ripley memberOf Transcendental Club
Old Manse associatedWith Concord literary circle
linked to: Transcendental Club
Spirit (chapter of Emerson's Nature) authorMovement Transcendental Club
subject linked to: chapter "Spirit"
Frederic Henry Hedge memberOf Transcendental Club
Henry Hedge memberOf Transcendental Club
Ellery Channing memberOf Concord literary circle
linked to: Transcendental Club
Concord, Massachusetts hasLiteraryAssociation Transcendental Club
subject linked to: Concord