Low living and high thinking at Modern Times, New York

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Low living and high thinking at Modern Times, New York

1st ed.

"In the mid 1800s, deep in the Long Island pine barrens, Modern Times was established as an experimental community whose members would not be bound by any government, church, constitution, or bylaws. Never more than 150 strong, set on a plat of only 90 acres, here was a haven for nonconformists. Its currency was words; its religion was discussion; its standard of conduct was unfettered individual freedom. Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York rescues this model village from obscurity and demonstrates its importance in the history of American communitarianism and social reform, especially in its pursuit of economic justice, women's rights, and free love." "The first full-length study of Modern Times, Wunderlich's account offers telling portraits of this small but significant group of reformers, pioneers, freethinkers, and sexual radicals. For 13 years they tested the precepts of the founders of the community, the philosophical anarchists Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews, who advocated the sovereignty of the individual and private, but profitless enterprise. Each person lived as he or she pleased, provided this did not impair the right of another to do the same; and each traded goods and services at cost, rather than market value, enabling cash-poor pioneers to own homesteads." "The community championed every kind of reform, from abolitionism, women's rights, and vegetarianism to hydropathy, pacifism, total abstinence, and the bloomer costume. Indifference to marital status and the advocacy of a free-love vanguard contributed to the community's controversial and somewhat illicit reputation. In 1864, seeking to remove themselves from the limelight, Modern Times's remaining settlers renamed the village Brentwood." "Wunderlich pieces together the village, person-by-person, by relying on primary sources such as land deeds, census entries, and eyewitness accounts. He also sheds new light on Warren and Andrews, two key figures in the communitarian movement, and discusses at length such important contemporaries as Thomas and Mary Gove Nichols, Robert Owen, John Humphrey Noyes, Horace Greeley, John Stuart Mill, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and George Ripley."--BOOK JACKET.

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259

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Low living and high thinking at Modern Times, New York
1992, Syracuse University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

Published in
Syracuse, N.Y
Series
Utopianism and communitarianism

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.77/4/0974725
Library of Congress
HX656.M63 W86 1992, HX656.M63W86 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 259 p., [10] p. of plates :
Number of pages
259

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Open Library
OL1545328M
Internet Archive
lowlivinghighthi0000wund
ISBN 10
0815625545
LCCN
91024490
OCLC/WorldCat
24143796
Library Thing
5695308
Goodreads
2474687

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