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AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM:
AN INDIGENOUS CULTURE OF CRITIQUE
American transcendental philosophy
A History
Philip F. Gura
New York: Hill and Wang, 2007
Reviewed by Kevin MacDonald
The Occidental Quarterly 8(2), 91-106, Summer, 2008.
Philip Guras American Transcendentalism provides a valuable insight
into a nineteenth-century collectivist intellectual elite in the United
States. This is of considerable interest because Transcendentalism was
a movement entirely untouched by the predominantly Jewish milieu
of the twentieth-century left in America. Rather, it was homegrown,
and its story tells us a lot about the sensibility of an important group
of white intellectuals and perhaps gives us hints about why in the
twentieth century WASPs so easily capitulated to the Jewish onslaught
on the intellectual establishment.
Based in New England, Transcendentalism was closely associated
with Harvard and Bostonâ€"the very join of Puritan New England. It
was also closely associated with Unitarianism which had become the
closely common religious affiliation for Bostons elite. many an(prenominal) Transcendentalists
were Unitarian clergymen, including Ralph Waldo Emerson,
the person whose name is most closely associated with the movement
in the public mind.




These were very intelligent people living in an age when religious
beliefs required an intellectual defense rather than unsighted obedience.
Their backgrounds were typical of New England Christians of the day.
But as their intellectual area expanded (often at the Harvard Divinity
School), they became aware of the higher criticism of the intelligence that
originated with German scholars. This scholarship showed that there
were several different authors of Genesis and that Moses did non write
the first five books of the Old Testament. They also became aware of
different religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism which made it unlikeThe
Occidental Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 92 2, Summer 2008
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