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Albert Brisbane

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Albert Brisbane , 1809-90, American social theorist, b. Batavia, N.Y. After studying with Charles Fourier in Paris, he returned to the United States as an enthusiastic advocate of Fourierism. His Social Destiny of Man (1840) aroused widespread interest, especially that of Horace Greeley, who gave him a column in the Tribune. Brisbane was instrumental in the founding of the phalanxes at Brook Farm and Red Bank, N.J. The failure of most of the other communal experiments was disastrous for the Fourierist cause, but Brisbane reaffirmed his convictions in his General Introduction... Read more
Albert Brisbane
Albert Brisbane The American social theorist Albert Brisbane (1809-1890) was the leading advocate of the kind of socialism known in the United States as Fourierism. Albert Brisbane was born on Aug. 22, 1809, in Batavia, N.Y. His father... Read more
Brisbane, Albert
Brisbane, Albert (1809–90), after studying under Charles Fourier in Paris, returned to the U.S. (1834) to popularize Fourierism through his...socialized communities in America. The most famous of these was Brook Farm, and the most successful the North American Phalanx. Brisbane had little to do with ... Read more

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