155: Emerson and Transcendentalism

from Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill · host Pigweed and Crowhill

P&C drink and review Fresh Catch from Narragansett, then, with special guest Longinus, discuss Emerson's essay, "Nature." Transcendentalism reacted against rationalism, and was heavily influenced by Romanticism, Platonism and Immanuel Kant's philosophy. Emerson and Thoreau were leading figures in the Transcendentalist movement. "Nature" is a short essay by Emerson, outlining his view that man can have direct experience with God through nature.

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