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Finding Meaning in Secular Times

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Listen to the full conversation on YouTube or Spotify. For a related discussion, watch the recording of Mark Vernon’s conversation with Professor Charles Stang at “William Blake and the Power of Imagination,” a recent event hosted by Wonderstruck and the...

Our Celestial Railroads

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John Kaag revisits Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The Celestial Railroad" to explore how Transcendentalism’s soaring ideals could drift into comfortable illusions—and how figures like Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and a changed Ralph Waldo...

Celebrating 'The Pearlsong' Through Scholarship and Song

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News story and photos by Jeffrey Blackwell A mystical poem recounting the tale of a Parthian prince sent to Egypt by his parents to recover a sacred pearl from the clutches of a monstrous serpent is the first in a series of important visionary and...

Transcendentalism Then—And Now

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Lawrence Buell reflects on a lifetime of reading Emerson and Thoreau, arguing that Transcendentalism is a philosophy of continual self-renewal, calling us at every age to resist conformity, sustain vision, and imagine the world otherwise.

Video: Eranos Conference 2023, "Ideas and Influences on Eros"

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Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director delivered a lecture entitled, “Apopha sis and Angelology: Henry Corbin’s Neoplatonism” at the 2023 Eranos conference in Switzerland. “This is not merely a minor chapter in the history of ideas, but rather a case...