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AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM: AN INDIGENOUS CULTURE OF CRITIQUE American transcendental philosophy A History Philip F. Gura recent York: hillock and Wang, 2007 Reviewed by Kevin MacDonald The western Quarterly 8(2), 91-106, Summer, 2008. Philip Guras American transcendentalism provides a valuable insight into a nineteenth-century collectivist expert elite in the United States. This is of considerable interest because transcendental philosophy was a movement entirely untouched by the predominantly Jewish milieu of the twentieth-century left in America. Rather, it was homegrown, and its story tells us a lot about the sensibility of an important collection of white intellectuals and perhaps gives us hints about why in the twentieth century WASPs so easily capitulated to the Jewish intrusion on the intellectual establishment. Based in New England, transcendentalism was closely associated with Harvard and Bostonthe very join of Puritan New England. It was wi thal closely associated with Unitarianism which had become the closely common ghostlike affiliation for Bostons elite. many an(prenominal) Transcendentalists were Unitarian clergymen, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, the someone whose name is most closely associated with the movement in the open mind.

These were very intelligent people living in an epoch when ghostly beliefs required an intellectual defense rather than tritanopic obedience. Their backgrounds were typical of New England Christians of the day. But as their intellectual battlefield expanded (often at the Harvard Divinity School), they became aware of the higher reprimand of the intelligence that originated with German scholars. This scholarship show! ed that there were several unalike authors of Genesis and that Moses did non write the first five books of the Old Testament. They also became aware of different religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism which made it unlikeThe Occidental Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 92 2, Summer 2008 ly that Christianity had a monopoly on religious truth....If you want to unhorse a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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