What is Transcendentalism? -A literary and philosophical movement that was begun during the early 19th century in New England by Ralph Waldo Emerson and others. Influenced by the Romantic movement, as well as the philosophies of Kant and Hegel. Emphasized nature as a source of human inspiration, almost on a religious level. Human intuition and relationship with nature very important.
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