By BROCK READTranscendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can ...

Links Among Transcendentalists’ Ideas Give Rise to a Professor’s Web SiteTranscendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology ...

In "American Transcendentalism," a new history of generous scope and considerable depth, Philip F. Gura illuminates a broad panoply of intriguing characters who contributed to this movement.

For much of the year, Alan Lightman lives less than a mile from Walden Pond, the Massachusetts spot where Henry David Thoreau popularized transcendentalism and its ideas about a direct connection ...

On Tuesday, Conor Hanick will perform Charles Ives’ Piano Sonata No. 2, commonly called the “Concord Sonata,” in Spoleto Festival’s Music in Time series. The piece has four movements, each ...

But I want to make a movie about ideas set in the 1840s or 1850s. ... As for the Transcendentalism project, Ethan Hawke recently discussed it at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Fuller’s new book, “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism,” chronicles that time and place, and especially those women: Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody ...

What the Great Awakening was for evangelical America, the transcendentalist movement was for liberal Protestants and even secular Americans. An outburst of emotional passion and conviction transformed ...

University of Connecticut professor emeritus Robert Gross talked about transcendentalism and its implications.