insight

[jordynz2]

plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/

this website has good information as well as sources and insight on transcendentalism. I found the criticisms really interesting and insightful. i hope everyone enjoys it as much as i did.

[kimb07]

I took a look and read over the website that Jordyn had recommended and I felt that it was very interesting and insightful. I thought it was interesting when it said that Emerson writes of power in Nature, when he explains nature as "obedient" to spirits and he cousels people to "Build ... your own world".

Also, if you scroll down to the bottom of that website there is a link to www.transcendentalists.com/ which I also found helpful in understanding transcendentalism.

[gregory]

www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/t/transcendentalism.html

This is an enlightening website on the history of the Transcendentalist movement and how it influenced society.

[lizm]

"German philosophy and literature was also championed by Thomas Carlyle, whom Emerson met on his first visit to Europe in 1831. Carlyle's philosophy of action in such works as Sartor Resartus resonates with Emerson's idea in "The American Scholar" that action — along with nature and "the mind of the Past" (O, 39) is essential to human education."

I thought that this passage from the website mentioned by Jordan was particularly interesting. We have discussed Emmersons's promotion of self-reliance and his stress on stepping away from societal forces. It is interesting that Emmerson was partially influenced by the German culture.