6/5/2023 0 Comments Chris jennings paradise now![]() ![]() But for many, utopian life also had its upsides: attention to education, better diets, fair wages, and sexual liberation were all components of these movements. Jennings dispels the pastoral image of an easy existence: labor was almost uniformly difficult and money was a consistent problem. These movements had many similarities-doing away with property and the family (except the Icarians), preaching cooperation, and focusing on bettering their members-while their fascinating differences owed much to the peculiarities of their founders’ motivating ideologies. He smartly organizes the book into five sections, each covering a major movement in the “Edenic void” of America: Shakers, New Harmony Owenists, Fourierists, Icarians, and the Perfectionists of the Oneida Community. ![]() Jennings reexamines America’s 19th-century utopian projects, viewing them as a response to growing industry and competition in post-Enlightenment Europe, in this thoughtful history. ![]()
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