Hutchins Hapgood
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Hutchins Hapgood was an U.S. journalist, author, individualist anarchist/philosophical anarchist.
He was well known within the Bohemian
environment of turn of the century New York City. He worked for the Commercial Advertiser
, while living in Greenwich Village
. He married Neith Boyce
and had four children with her. He advocated free love
and committed adultery frequently. Hapgood was a follower of the German philosophers Max Stirner
and Friedrich Nietzsche
.
He was well known within the Bohemian
Bohemianism
Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits...
environment of turn of the century New York City. He worked for the Commercial Advertiser
Commercial Advertiser
The New-York Commercial Advertiser was an evening American newspaper.It was published, with slight name variations, from 1797-1904, though it originated as the American Minerva founded in 1793.-History:...
, while living in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York 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...
. He married Neith Boyce
Neith Boyce
Neith Boyce Hapgood was a U.S. novelist and playwright.She married Hutchins Hapgood on June 22, 1899...
and had four children with her. He advocated free love
Free love
The term free love has been used to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage. The Free Love movement’s initial goal was to separate the state from sexual matters such as marriage, birth control, and adultery...
and committed adultery frequently. Hapgood was a follower of the German philosophers Max Stirner
Max Stirner
Johann 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 anarchism...
and Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
.
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