Upon resettling in Concord, Massachusetts, he wove these diverse threads into the philosophical tradition known as American Transcendentalism. Emerson's companions in the movement included Jones ...

“I have lived entirely too much of my life in the 19th century!” Randall Fuller laughs. And indeed, all of the Kansas University professor’s previous books explored America’s intellectual landscape ...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a ...

in our daily thoughts — and to help develop the philosophy that would come to be called transcendentalism. Emerson’s life touched many points of American history — so many that it can seem ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century ...