Exploring Nietzsche’s reading of Emerson, Nicholas Low asks what it means to inherit Transcendentalism as a tradition that demands transformation rather than adherence, and how that legacy bears on Nietzsche's challenge to "become who you are."
A chance encounter with a historic Denver house leads Noelle A. Baker to uncover an unexpected convergence between Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller's Transcendentalism and the history of transgender community formation.
For Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, to see was to behold the sacred in the commonplace. In this essay, Richard Higgins treats sight within Transcendentalist tradition as a discipline for bringing wonder and spiritual awakening into focus.
Margaret Fuller redefined education as a "reproductive" act. Ulrike Wagner examines how Fuller's criticism and series of Conversations translated Romantic philology into a democratic pedagogy, positioning women’s voices as a medium through which knowledge...