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Emerson, Transcendentalism,
and the Unfolding of History



  The Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant was adopted and adapted by many other people in Europe and the Americas, one of the more interesting instances of these adoptions / adaptions being that of the New England Transcendentalists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson was perhaps the most far-seeing of the New England Transcendentalists, he came to believe that all people share a 'commonality of mind' and that it is this mind that acts as a foundational pattern for historical developments.



"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson



"History is for human self-knowledge ... the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."
R. G. Collingwood



Emerson's call for a
"Transcendental Approach" to History
The Unfolding of History
The revolution of 1848 - 9
The springtime of the peoples
The French revolution of 1848
Germany - the Frankfurt Vorparlament
and german revolution 1848
Italy revolution 1848
1849 - the dynasties recover power
The "anti-revolutionary" mindset
of the Dynastic governments
from 1815 until after the Crimean War
Cavour, Garibaldi and
Italian Unification 		Otto von Bismarck and
German Unification
Italy unification map Map of German unification
The Ems Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram
President Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points Speech
Lenin's New Economic Policy
European Union Integration
Modern European History


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