I. Industrialism and New Government Responses
ü
Sadler Committee:
ü
Representation of the People Act of 1832
(aka Reform Bill)
ü
Poor Law Amendment Act
ü
Welfare State Origins
II.
Radical Responses:
A. Romanticism
§
Sapere
Aude? Dare to Know? No. Dare to be!
§ Rousseau: “If I am not better, at
least I am different.”
§
John
Keats:
"O for a life of sensations rather
than of thoughts," 1825
§
William
Blake: (1757-1827)
B. Utopian Socialists
1.
Charles Fourier: (1772-1837)
Total
rejection of industrialism
His
key concept? phalanstere
His
vision?
§
androgynous
plants would copulate
§
six
moons would orbit the earth
§
the
North Pole would be milder than the Mediterranean
§
the
seas would lose their salt and become oceans of lemonade
§
the
world would contain 37 million poets equal to Homer, 37 million mathematicians
equal to Newton and 37 million dramatists equal to Molière, although
"these are approximate estimates"
§
every
woman would have four lovers or husbands simultaneously
2.
Henri Saint-Simon: (1760-1825)
·
Industrial
state could be organized to perfection…ablest minds needed to control industry
for the good of all
·
European
states needed to form an association to outlaw war
·
Argued
for the common ownership of all goods
·
Abolition
of inheritance
·
Christian
Socialist industrialism
·
Enfranchisement
of women
·
Saint
Simonian became a church
3.
Marx….read and ready to go on Monday…
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