concept
Phalanstery
phalanstery
also: falanszt, phalanstère
A communal living-and-working unit proposed by the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772–1837), housing several hundred people under scientific management. In scene 12 of Az ember tragédiája, Madách uses the phalanstery as a satirical image of a future that has eliminated individuality, love, and poetry in the name of collective rationalism.
Reading notes
- The Tragedy of Man §12 phalanstery
A communal living-and-working unit proposed by the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772–1837), housing several hundred people under scientific management. In scene 12 of Az ember tragédiája, Madách uses the phalanstery as a satirical image of a future that has eliminated individuality, love, and poetry in the name of collective rationalism.