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transcendentalism

Philosophy inaugurated in the 18th century by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. As opposed to metaphysics in the traditional sense, transcendental philosophy is concerned with the conditions of possibility of experience, rather than the nature of being. It seeks to show the necessary structure of our ‘point of view’ on the world.

Introduced to Britain, transcendentalism influenced the writers Samuel Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle.



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For the most part, they were young men who were either directly or indirectly involved in World War I and who belonged to a young generation that went to fight in that war, having been brought up on a very romantic and idealistic diet of Jeffersonianism and American Transcendentalism.
Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, titans of 19th-century American transcendentalism, loved it.
By then, Sandler says, he had embraced American Transcendentalism.
 
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