Brook Farm was a cooperative community founded in 1841 by transcendentalists. Its aim was to simplify economic relations and foster intellectual and spiritual self-improvement, but the community disbanded in 1847.
Brook Farm était une communauté coopérative fondée en 1841 par des transcendantalistes. Son but était de simplifier les relations économiques et de favoriser l'amélioration intellectuelle et spirituelle, mais la communauté s'est dissoute en 1847.
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| Back | a cooperative reform community, founded in 1841 by George Ripley and other transcendentalists on a farm in Massachusetts Brook farm's aim was to simplify and purify economic relations by retreating from an increasingly commercial society and working the farm together to achieve a simplified, near-subsistence existence which would have time for intellectual and spiritual self-improvement. Margaret Fuller, r Emerson, William Channing, Theodore Parker, Orestes Brownson, Hawthorne who based his novel , The Blithedale Romance, on his Brook farm experience two periodical , the phalanx 1843-5 and the Harbinger 1845-9 the community disbanded in 1847 |
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