Add to ORKGIn the dynamic ferment of American Transcendentalism a number of men and women arose who continue to claim thoughtful attention. Their influence upon American literary, philosophical, political, and social thought, however assessed, occupies a solid place in the history of the nineteenth century. It is difficult if not impossible to mark the first stirrings of transcendental thought in America. There can hardly be any doubt that German idealism impinged markedly upon the thought of those who came to be designated Transcendentalists in America. Strains of European transcendentalism can be clearly traced in the writings of Americans like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller. At the same time, George Willis Cooke offers ev...
