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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Ellen Sturgis Hooper → associatedWith → New England literary circle ⓘ
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