Radical Transcendentalisms (Historical Materialism Book Series, 381)

Radical Transcendentalisms seeks to recover the intense relation that the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist movement had with radical social reform, and to recover it from the long history of liberal, individualist accusations that have been hurled at it. The authors in this collection argue that Transcendentalism offers us a deep critique of capitalist social relations, and that we might reexamine this critique in order to draw inspiration for our contentious political present.