Transparent Eyeballs: The Transcendentalists and Their Worlds, 1803-Present

Transparent Eyeballs: The Transcendentalists and Their Worlds, 1803-Present

Osher Online | Available (Membership Required)

U of A Fayetteville, AR 72701 United States
Online Through Zoom
Course Open to OLLI Members ONLY!
Tuesday, January 14, 2025-Tuesday, February 18, 2025
12:00 PM-1:30 PM on Tue
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$65.00

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Transparent Eyeballs: The Transcendentalists and Their Worlds, 1803-Present

Osher Online | Available (Membership Required)

Transcendentalism is an umbrella term that refers to a complex and profoundly influential philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that emerged in the 1820s and 1830s. The intellectual, social, and political ideas generated by Transcendentalist thinkers, writers, and activists transformed Americans’ understandings of nature, God, and the rights and responsibilities of the individual to themselves and to society in ways that continue to reverberate across US politics and culture in our own times.

This course will examine the ideas, writings, political activism, and legacies of contributors to the Transcendentalist movement including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and beyond. Our investigations will aim to help each of us actualize Emerson’s definition of freedom as “an open-ended process of self-realization by which individuals [can] remake themselves and their own lives."

Class schedule: Live lecture will take place on Tuesdays via ZOOM 

  • Tuesday, January 14, Live lecture 1  
  • Tuesday, January 21,  Live lecture 2  
  • Tuesday, January 28, Live lecture 3  
  • Tuesday, February 4,  Live lecture 4  
  • Tuesday, February 11,  Live lecture 5 
  • Tuesday, February 18,  Live lecture 6 

  • As this class is delivered by the National Resource Center for OLLIs (NRC) at Northwestern University, you will receive a welcome email from osheronline@northwestern.edu.  The email will include your credentials (username & password) as well as a hyperlink to the Osher Online Website through which you will access your course website.

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Antonucci, Anthony
Anthony Antonucci

A New England native (and self-described "New England Transcendentalist"), Dr. Anthony Antonucci teaches history and American studies at Cal State Pomona. His passion for Transcendentalism is rooted in his experience as an avid hiker, mountain climber, vagabond traveler, and lover of wild nature and poetry. He earned multiple graduate degrees in US history and culture including a PhD in US History from the University of Connecticut under the direction of Bancroft Award-winning-historian, Dr. Robert Gross. Antonucci's work as a scholar of US social and transnational history has earned numerous awards, including a Fulbright Research Fellowship (Italy), and fellowships through the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.