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The format of this seminar has changed from an attendance-based “Blockseminar” to an online-based, asynchronous course. You will be contacted by your instructor after the end of the registration period. Please check your HU-email address to receive the URL and password to the Moodle course!
The course aims to provide the participants with a forum for the discussion and analysis of the variegated texts of one of the most influential streams of thought of the American antebellum period: Transcendentalism. On the basis of the tracts, essays, articles, and poems of such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Margaret Fuller, and others, participants will examine Transcendentalism’s philosophical and theological origins in Unitarianism and Idealism, its location in current contemporary sociopolitical discourses pertaining to the Age of Reform and expansionism, as well as its formal characteristics. Furthermore, students will have an opportunity to explore Transcendentalism’s influence on subsequent generations of American writers, thinkers, and philosophers. Information regarding course requirements will be provided in the first session. |
