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.
Alex Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He teaches and writes about the senses, slavery, and political economy in early and nineteenth-century American and African American Literature. Ted Stolze is Professor of Philosophy at Cerritos College. He has published primarily on Spinoza, Marxism, and contemporary French philosophy; and he is the author of Becoming Marxist (Brill, 2019).
