The Rise of Ethical Anarchism in Britain, 1885-1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4807978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Bevir (0000-0001-9666-3113, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 169 |
| Pages | 143-165 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2281.1996.tb01848.x |
| OpenAlex | W2108363646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
In the nineteenth century, anarchists were strict individualists favouring clandestine organization and violent revolution: in the twentieth century, they have been romantic communalists favouring moral experiments and sexual liberation. This article examines the growth of this ethical anarchism in Britain in the late nineteenth century, as exemplified by the Freedom Group and the Tolstoyans. These anarchists adopted the moral and even religious concerns of groups such as the Fellowship of the New Life. Their anarchist theory resembled the beliefs of counter-cultural groups such as the aesthetes more closely than it did earlier forms of anarchism. And this theory led them into the movements for sex reform and communal living
Cultural revolution · Environmental ethics · Individualism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sexual life · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |