| Stephen Pearl Andrews | |
| Birth Date: | 22 April 1812 |
| Birth Place: | Templeton, Massachusetts, US |
| Death Place: | New York City, US |
| Occupation: | Activist, journalist, philosopher, writer |
| Known For: | American individualist anarchist and outspoken abolitionist |
Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886) was an American libertarian socialist, individualist anarchist, linguist, political philosopher, and outspoken abolitionist.
By the end of the 1840s, Andrews began to focus his energies on utopian communities. Fellow individualist anarchist Josiah Warren was responsible for Andrew's conversion to radical individualism and in 1851 they established Modern Times in Brentwood, New York. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1846.[1] In 1857, Andrews established the Unitary Homes on East 14 St. and Stuyvesant St. in New York City.[2]
In the 1870s, Andrews promoted Joseph Rodes Buchanan's psychometry besides his own universology predicting that a priori derived knowledge would supersede empirical science as exact science.[3] Andrews was also considered a leader in the religious movement of spiritualism.[4] Anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker called Andrews a significant exponent of libertarian socialism in the United States.[5]
Andrews' individualist anarchism is a form of economic mutualism.[6]