The American Transcendental movement (1830-1880), advocate of the unifying ‘Ministry of Nature’ or Over soul, whose chief promoter was lecturer and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, was accused by fellow writer Edgar Allan Poe of being a blend of English Romanticism and German Idealism. This talk explores the sway of Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling on transcendental ideas, and its long reach into the 21st century.
