The utopians : six attempts to build the perfect society
Neima, Anna2022
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'The Utopians' is the remarkable story of six experimental communities - Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki-mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America - that sprang up in the aftermath of the First World War. Each was led by charismatic figures who dreamed of a new way of living. Rabindranath Tagore, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, Mushanokoji Saneatsu, G. I. Gurdjieff, Eberhard and Emmy Arnold and Gerald Heard all struggled to turn ambitious ideals into reality. They - and their fellow communards - left their jobs, their homes and their social circles. Anna Neima's absorbing and vivid account of these collectives, from creation to collapse, reveals them to be full of eccentric characters, outlandish lifestyles, and unchecked idealism.
Main title:
The utopians : six attempts to build the perfect society / Anna Neima.
Author:
Neima, Anna, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.
Collation:
ix, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529023107 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
321.07
Language:
English
BRN:
2288744
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