In Pragmatism and Feminism (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Purdue philosophy professor Charlene Haddock Seigfried demonstrated the price to pragmatism of a canon that long excluded women thinkers ...

It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.

PLYMOUTH – Henry David Thoreau, intellectual rebel, transcendentalist, author, conservationist and abolitionist said, “A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” Plymouth ...

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in ...

(RNS) The author of 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods,' who was born 200 years ago this week, was a Transcendentalist. Let us 'Splain . . . (RNS) — The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do” ...