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From Body Reform to Reforming the Body Politic: Transcendentalism and the Militant Antislavery Career of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

American Nineteenth Century History, 2007
Second‐generation Transcendentalist minister Thomas Wentworth Higginson played a leading role in the latter stages of the struggle against slavery. A principal member of the Boston Vigilance Committee, which resisted attempts to capture fugitive slaves, Higginson also provided support for John Brown’s assault at Harpers Ferry and served as colonel of ...
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THE PHENOMENON OF IMPOSTURE. TRANSCENDENTAL LEGITIMACY OF POWER IN POLITICAL MODERNITY

RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series
The article deals with the theoretical problem of studying imposture as a phenomenon of history, which is often seen only as an event frame relating to a certain time. But imposture is recurrent, becomes chronic, and therefore needs to be conceptualized not only as an event phenomenon, but also as a peculiar constant of Russian reality, in which ...
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How political geography can challenge dubious socio-spatial practices: developing transcendental phronetic political geography

2016
Although an increasing number of donors try to improve the living conditions of inhabitants in informal urban settlements, some studies show that only a very limited amount of provided resources reach those impoverished. The inability of projects to change the situation for the better could point to dubious practices. Despite academia trying to produce
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‘We Are Alone, and We Are Never Alone’: American Transcendentalism and the Political Education of Human Nature

2012
Henry D. Thoreau, the nineteenth century American transcendentalist, is known as a nature writer. The work by which he is best known, Walden (1854), is a record of his living in the woods at Walden Pond for nearly 2 years. Lawrence Buell, in his The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writings, and the Formation of American Culture (1995 ...
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