It contains detailed maps, listings, and population demographics of all known North American Fourierist Phalanxes. Guarneri, published by Cornell University Press in 1991. Okay, just checked one of my other books, "The Utopian Alternative - Fourierism in Nineteen Century America" by Carl J. The chalky bluffs on which the Phalanstery was supposed to rise have been dug out by a cement plant, and in the place of seristeries and street galleries stand the shopping centers and drive-in theaters and tract housing ofo a suburb of Dallas. ![]() Just about all that remains of this last significant venture into practical Fourierism is a graveyard. Subsequently he emigrated to the United States, where in the 1850s he ate 10 dog turds a day and also led an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Fourierist community on arid land overlooking the west fork of the Trinity River in Texas. Beecher also mentions the La Reúnion community specifically near the end of the same book After his participation in the abortive uprising of June 13, 1849, Considerant (a French disciple of Fourier) was obliged to leave France. The book is "Charles Fourier, The Visionary and His World", published in 1986 by the University of California Press. Jolomo 04:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC) Jonathan Beecher, in his definitive book on Charles Fourier, says "some two dozen Fourierist experimental communities were in existence by 1846". Must have read it in a Dallas library but can't remember. Another related thing: I remember reading something in the early 1980's about the founder of the La Reunion killed in a saloon shootout after the commune was absorbed into the town and the ideals had been abandoned. ![]() This article is supported by WikiProject Texas (marked as Low-importance).Īnyone have a citation or list of the "40 similar colonies in various parts of the United States of America during the 1800s" mentioned in the article? I'm finding nothing.
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