Author: Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, West Roxbury, MassPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Constitution of the Brook Farm Association, for Industry and Education, West Roxbury, Mass
Author: Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, West Roxbury, MassPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Transcendental Utopias
Author: Richard FrancisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501724193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
New England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and patterned world of nature. Richard Francis has written the first book to explore in detail the ideological basis of the three famous experiments during the 1840s: Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Henry David Thoreau's "community of one" on the shores of Walden Pond.Francis suggests that at the heart of Transcendentalism was a belief that all phenomena are connected in a repetitive sequence. The task was to explain how human society could be reordered to benefit from this seriality. Some members of the movement believed in evolutionary progress, whereas others hoped to be the agents of a sudden millennial transformation. They differed, as well, in their views as to whether the fundamental social unit was the individual, the family, the phalanstery, or the community. The story of the three communities was, inevitably, also the story of particular individuals, and Francis highlights the lives and ideas of such leaders as George Ripley, W. H. Channing, Bronson Alcott, Charles Lane, and Theodore Parker. The consistent underlying beliefs of the New England Transcendentalists have exerted a powerful influence on American intellectual and cultural history ever since.
Transcendentalism
Author: Joel MyersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195122127
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
A collection of writings from leading figures of the 19th century American Transcendentalist movement.
Two Hundred Years of American Communes
Author: Iaácov OvedPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412840552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The United States is the only modern nation in which communes have continuously existed for the past two hundred years. This definitive history of communes in America examines the major factors that have supported the existence and growth of communes throughout American history. The most impressive survey of the communal experience since the works of Noyes and Nordhoff, it is informed by a deep respect for the human subjects and organizational forms of American communes. The findings in the analytical chapters are of considerably theoretical import beyond the historical narrative. Oved details the founding, growth, development, and sometimes failure of alternative societies from 1735 to 1939: Icaria, Ephrata, Oneida, Shaker, religious, secular, and socialist communes. Extensive reference material cited will assure this work a special place in the archives of the literature on communes.
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Author: University of Minnesota. Library SchoolPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Charles Fourier's the Phalanx
Author: The Phalanx
Author: Necro Citizenship
Author: Russ CastronovoPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822327721
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
DIVArgues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens./div
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Author: The American Transcendentalists
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 081297509X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century.