With the passing of Paul Auster, the aesthetics of postmodernism retreated another significant step back into the past tense ...

The great American thinker was able to write his shimmering essays thanks to a healthy income from dividends and speaking ...

The so-called Transcendentalists of New England were the most conspicuous result of this new enthusiasm for the individual. In spite of his scorn for their pretensions, Edgar Allan Poe ...

Refusing to acknowledge any authority beyond themselves, the Transcendentalists believed that each individual must make their own decisions about God, the human race and the world. Emerson ...

From his popular podcast, to his travels with Will and Jada Smith, to GAP ads with wife Radhi—the ones that feature his ...

This chapter focuses on the essays of Transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Margaret Fuller who used writing as a spiritual and philosophical tool. This special form ...

The belief that the American world was in harmony with the laws of the universe led Emerson and the transcendentalists to speculate about the nature of those laws. Without the belief neither ...

“The Transcendentalists’ Call: Mabel Loomis Todd, the Thoreaus, and Emily Dickinson” is the title of the talk focusing on ...

Refusing to acknowledge any authority beyond themselves, the Transcendentalists believed that each individual must make their own decisions about God, the human race and the world. Emerson ...