Living Texts Video Series

In the third episode of "Living Texts," Phyllis Cole explores how Margaret Fuller took the Transcendentalist ideal of self-reliance and transformed it into a much broader argument for women’s freedom in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Fuller begins from...

In the second episode of "Living Texts," John Kaag explores Ralph Waldo Emerson's lifelong engagement with theodicy—the enduring philosophical and religious question of how suffering and evil can exist within a universe imbued with the divine. Beginning...