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Transcendentalism
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BBD a10020354
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In literature, a movement which flourished in New England from 1836 to 1860. Stemming largely from the Unitarian reaction against Puritanism, it found confirmation in the ferment of ideas in European philosophy and literature of the period ... The New England application of the doctrine of the immanence of God in nature developed a mystical belief in individualism and self-reliance, made famous by Emerson (Columbia Encyclopedia)
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Philosophy
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Social movements
 
Transcendence