One of the biggest issues I had at the beginning of this semester was the idea of utopia. Fundamentally, I, personally, don’t think it is possible, viable, or reasonable. So as I have researched and discusses the Icarians, my stance on the …
My research addresses the problem of Utopia in a myriad of ways. Beginning with the book New Heaven, New Earth we see that for an intentional community to be successful a prophet is actually necessary and there a little examples that prove otherwise. T…
Much of my research focuses on the “Americanization of Fourierism” and Albert Brisbane’s role in this process. This aspect of my research portrays a unique example of how a social thinker created a movement in reaction to his current circumstance…
When writing about really anything at all from history, it is very important to see the topic directly through the eyes of the people who lived at that time and personally witnessed or experienced what it is that you are writing about. Primary sources …
Icaria is defined as a utopian community, but is it truly a utopia. I would argue that for the time Icaria was a utopia, especially for women. However, by today’s standards it is no where near a utopia. Women at the time were given many rights su…
From the primary sources, I can see that the average person of Oneida dealt with significant stress of daily life before they came to the community. To them Oneida wasn’t a utopia, it was how a community should be. They were all ready predisposed…
I believe one of the most widely recognized problems of an attempted utopia like New Harmony was the tendency to invite everyone of all classes to join, then finding the harmonious union impossible. Although New Harmony was propagandized as a symbol fo…
A lot of my research was focused on The Harbinger, and how it sought a connection to the outside community to spread the word about the Associationist beliefs originating from Charles Fourier and about the Brook Farm community. However, I did find a …
My research can be organised in a logical way that is not just chronological. I start with a broad look at Millenium movements in the 19th century through the book New Heaven, New Earth. This is the logical place to start as it puts Oneida in a histori…
Aside from organizing my information in chronological order I can organize my information by importance. Marie’s first hand account of being a female is particularly important as it and my other source on women will be the basis of information fo…