Utopian Projects of American Transcendentalists in 1840s: The "Brook Farm" Commune and the Walden Experiment

Student: Voronin Ivan

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2016

The intellectual elite of Massachusetts formed a community which received the name “Transcendental Club”. Transcendentalists organized conversations, meetings and wrote literature compositions, philosophical essays and articles in the journal "Dial". Besides, their activity was also famous by own practices for improvement of living conditions accordingly transcendentalists’ ideas. This paper is intended to compare two utopian projects of transcendentalists: the commune “Brook Farm” and The Walden Experiment. There it will be considered causes of transcendentalist movement in the USA, economic and philosophic components of these enterprises and their outcomes.

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