Experiments in Community

The six essays in this pamphlet describe what are sometimes called intentional communities. A community is called "intentional" when it deliberately adopts a way of life, a type of culture, different from that of the society which surrounds it. As such, it may be perfectionist because, observing the faults of society in general and endeavoring to avoid them, it creates a so-called "utopia," in which a specific philosophy of life can be fully carried out without obstruction from persons of d...