Christopher Clark

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The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton AssociationPaperback, 10 November 2003

The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association
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Print Length
269 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Date Published
10 Nov 2003
ISBN-10
1558494162
ISBN-13
9781558494169

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It used to be virtually unquestioned that history belonged to the successful. Individuals and movements deemed failures were usually disregarded or entirely forgotten.

Communitarians of the 1840s set forth a variety of radical critiques of contemporary American society, based both on their own experiences and on their visions of a better world. Their attempts to realize these visions met with strong opposition and practical obstacles. Even as they began to retreat, they were cast by their opponents as insignificant or as fanatics, and those views have influenced most subsequent historical accounts of them. This book joins other recent studies that have sought to reevaluate the efforts of communitarians on their own terms, to locate them in their social and political contexts, and to understand the dilemmas that they faced. The Northampton Association provides an ideal opportunity for a study of this kind. It is easily the most obscure of the main New England utopian communities of the 1840s, so its story remains unfamiliar even to many specialist scholars. In his book, Clark aims not to celebrate the men and women of the Northampton community, but to understand them better, to trace how their vision was formed, and how it came to fade again into something less radical, less ambitious, and more forgettable.

Product Details

Author:
Christopher Clark
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 November 2003
Dimensions:
22.61 x 16.1 x 1.85 cm
ISBN-10:
1558494162
ISBN-13:
9781558494169
Language:
English
Location:
Amherst
Pages:
269
Weight:
458.13 gm

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