The Harbinger: Devoted to Social and Political Progress

The Harbinger: Devoted to Social and Political Progress. Ed. George Ripley. Brook Farm Phalanx. New York: Burgess, Stringer and Company; Boston: Redding and Company. 1845-1847. 4 vols.

According to Joel Meyerson, "The Harbinger (1845-1849), published at Brook Farm (and later in New York), became a major organ for Associationism and Fourierism in America. At times it seemed as if Brook Farm had lost its autonomy and become just one more communitarian society within the larger movement. Although the paper did publish literary works, reviews, and translations — as well as the music criticism of John Sullivan Dwight — the Harbinger was, first and foremost, a reformist journal, and one that did not outlive by long Brook Farm itself" (https://academic.oup.com/book/49230/chapter-abstract/422050814?redirectedFrom=fulltext). "The journal was the successor of the Phalanx, published in New York, after the Fourierists moved to Brook farm ... . It was issued by the Brook Farm Phalanx for four volumes and then by the American Union of Associationists, both advocates of Charles Fourier's variety of utopian socialism" (http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/harbinger/)

 

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