St. Louis Hegelians

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The St. Louis Hegelians were a group of thinkers based in St. Louis, Missouri, who flourished in the 1860s. They were influenced by German idealism and Hegelianism. [1] They were led by William Torrey Harris and Henry Conrad Brokmeyer and were responsible for the publication of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy from 1867 to 1893, a non–theological organ which published an early essay on Friedrich Schiller written by Josiah Royce. [2] Other members of the school included William McKendree Bryant and Thomas Davidson.

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Transcendentalism

Although influenced by contemporaneous American Transcendentalists, [3] the St. Louis Hegelians viewed Transcendentalism in a mixed light. In the essay The Speculative, written by William Torrey Harris and published in the first issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy , Harris criticized Transcendentalism, claiming that the Transcendentalists had "truncated the dialectic" of the individual by focusing on individualism solely and not the "negative" element of a person's "interrelatedness with other individuals" in society. [4]

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  1. ↑ Hine, Robert V. (1992). Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard. Upper Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 98. ISBN   0-8061-2375-3.
  2. ↑ Hine 1992: 98
  3. ↑ Michael H. DeArmey, St. Louis Hegelians, p. viii.
  4. ↑ DeArmey, Michael H., ed. (2001). The Saint Louis Hegelians. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press. p. 14. ISBN   1-85506-861-3.
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