Modernism vs Transcendentalism - What's the difference?
modernism | transcendentalism |
(uncountable) Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc.
(countable) Anything that is characteristic of modernity.
any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century
a religious movement in the early 20th century that tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy
The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.