ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PHALANSTERY
From French phalanstère, from phalangephalanx, on the model of monastèremonastery.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHALANSTERY»
Discover the use of
phalanstery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
phalanstery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Children at the
Phalanstery. A Familiar Dialogue on ...
Consequently, in order to state in proper terms the programme of the Phalanstery
, We must first know what facts will take place there, what tendencies will be
developed ; it is, therefore, necessary to have a. profound knowledge of the
social ...
François Jean Félix CANTAGREL, Francis George SHAW (of West Roxbury, Mass.), 1848
He gained the attention of congressmen and of President James Monroe, to
whom he unveiled a six-foot scale model of the future New Harmony phalanstery.
This elaborate structure was based on the phalanstery proposed by Charles
Fourier ...
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Zoé De Gatti De Gamond, 2009
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Utopian Thought in the Western World
Since affections were always allowed free play in phalanstery there was no
shame attached to being subordinate or passive in love, friendship, or organized
activity. All passions created by God were naturally good and harmonious if they
...
Frank Edward MANUEL, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel, Frank Edward Manuel, 2009
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The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-century ...
The American version of the phalanstery was a long wood-frame building based
not on neoclassical civic architecture but on prevailing styles of residential
construction. Brook Farm's served as a prototype. According to a report in The ...
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Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-Century Building Type
In order to avoid the "evils of civilization," Charles Fourier proposed for his
projects "phalanstery" production units, with a central administration and a
planned economy, which were to accommodate about 2,000 people in a
communal ...
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Archaeological Semiotics
Ripley's account revealshis desire to use architecture to signifythe community's
commitment to Fourierism. The Phalanstery was designed to mediate the relation
between the community and the individual, the public and the private. His use of
...
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Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World
For Benjamin the Phalanstery was "a city of arcades," and it was in the arcades
that "Fourier saw the architectonic canon of the Phalanstery."8 It should be noted
that the flourishing of the arcade as a space for promenades and luxury ...
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Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England
In living through it he was adamantly against it, yet surely his utopianism was
revolutionary, not just in the sense of being bold, radical, envisaging great
change, but in a stricter sense, that the idea of the phalanstery logically
depended on the ...
Christopher Kendrick, 2004
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Two Hundred Years of American Communes
This situation caused everyone to join in the effort to construct a large unitary
edifice, a phalanstery, as recommended by Fourier's social vision. The
phalanstery was to be a 2-story wooden-building divided into fourteen distinct
suites of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHALANSTERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
phalanstery is used in the context of the following news items.
Rijksmuseum wins European Museum of the Year Award
... was awarded to the Familistère at Guise, in France, a living museum in a 19th-century phalanstery or “social palace” for factory workers. «Museums Association, May 15»
Nohant: Visit the Country Home of Author George Sand
It was a phalanstery of sorts, where the great talents of the time were generously offered privacy and space, inclusive of 'room service' so to ... «FranceToday.com, Feb 15»
Anarchy in the bus lane: how protesters quietly took over London's …
“Phalanstery,” reads the buzzer outside the HQ of the anarchist magazine Strike! How I'm meant to work out that this is their office eludes me. «The Guardian, Jan 15»
Paradise lost? The enduring legacy of a Soviet-era utopian workers …
... kitchens, laundries and other services for its 18,000 employees in communal blocks of 300 residents each — a symmetrical phalanstery on a ... «The Calvert Journal, Dec 14»
America Is a Utopian Experiment—and Always Has Been
In 1846, the uninsured Phalanstery burned to the ground in a fire. One year later, six years after its founding, Brook Farm closed. As resident ... «Pacific Standard, Feb 14»
'I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel'
Tippins argues that it was in the Sixties that the hotel reached its zenith of the phalanstery ideal: a "liberated zone", animated by the collective ... «Irish Independent, Feb 14»
Inside the Dream Palace: the Life and Times of New York's …
... inspired by the utopian ideas of the French philosopher Charles Fourier for an “urban phalanstery”, where people of “congenial tastes” would ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 14»
Inside the Dream Palace by Sherill Tippins – review
The phalanstery turned into what Tippins calls a "shabby caravansery", catering to transients who either did not mind its scuffed linoleum, ... «The Guardian, Jan 14»
Memo to Francois Hollande: no sex please, we're French
In the typical “phalanstery” of the Age of Harmony (which is surely imminent) not only do people have more than enough to eat and drink (a ... «The Conversation, Jan 14»
Emerging talent at Amsterdam's Unseen Photo Fair 2013
... Hyers & Mebane documented the home of The Uranian Phalanstery, an eccentric artists' collective founded in the 1970s by Richard Tyler. «wallpaper.com, Oct 13»
