Hutchins Hapgood (Chicago, May 21, 1869 - Provincetown, MA, November 19, 1944) was an U.S. journalist, author, individualist anarchist/philosophical anarchist.
He was well known within the
BohemianBohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits, with few permanent ties...
environment of turn of the century New York City. He worked for the
Commercial AdvertiserThe New-York Commercial Advertiser was an evening American newspaper.It was published from 1797-1904....
, while living in
Greenwich VillageGreenwich Village , often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families. Greenwich Village, however, was known in the late 19th – earlier to mid 20th...
. He married
Neith BoyceNeith Boyce was a U.S. novelist and playwright.She married Hutchins Hapgood on June 22, 1899. Together with Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, and others, they founded the Provincetown Players....
and had four children with her. He advocated
free loveThe term free love has been used since at least the 19th century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women. Much of the free-love tradition is an offshoot of anarchism, and reflects a civil libertarian philosophy that seeks...
and committed adultery frequently.
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Hutchins Hapgood (Chicago, May 21, 1869 - Provincetown, MA, November 19, 1944) was an U.S. journalist, author, individualist anarchist/philosophical anarchist.
He was well known within the
BohemianBohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits, with few permanent ties...
environment of turn of the century New York City. He worked for the
Commercial AdvertiserThe New-York Commercial Advertiser was an evening American newspaper.It was published from 1797-1904....
, while living in
Greenwich VillageGreenwich Village , often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families. Greenwich Village, however, was known in the late 19th – earlier to mid 20th...
. He married
Neith BoyceNeith Boyce was a U.S. novelist and playwright.She married Hutchins Hapgood on June 22, 1899. Together with Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, and others, they founded the Provincetown Players....
and had four children with her. He advocated
free loveThe term free love has been used since at least the 19th century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women. Much of the free-love tradition is an offshoot of anarchism, and reflects a civil libertarian philosophy that seeks...
and committed adultery frequently. Hapgood was a follower of the German philosophers
Max StirnerJohann Kaspar Schmidt , better known as Max Stirner , was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist...
and
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th- century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German-language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and...
.
Works
- Autobiography of a Thief
- The Spirit of the Ghetto 1902
- Types from City Streets 1910
- Story of a Lover
- Anarchist Woman
- The Spirit of Labor
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