Charles fourier biography
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- This article is about the French utopian socialist. For the mathematician and physicist, see Joseph Fourier.
François Marie Charles Fourier (April 7, 1772 – October 10, 1837) was a Frenchutopiansocialist and philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that the natural passions of man would, if properly channeled, result in social harmony. He believed that he had discovered the laws of social interaction, comparable to Newton’s laws of physical interaction. Fourier identified twelve fundamental human passions: five of the senses (touch, taste, hearing, sight and smell); four of the soul (friendship, love, ambition and parenthood); and three that he called “distributive,” which ensured the balance of all the others.
Fourier envisioned a society organized in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives of 810 personality types, in which natural interaction would automatically result in peace an
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Charles Fourier
French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
For the French mathematician, see Joseph Fourier.
François Marie Charles Fourier (;[1]French:[ʃaʁlfuʁje]; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism.[2] Some of his views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream in modern society. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.[3]
Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of intentional communities. Among them in the United States were the community of Utopia, Ohio; La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas; Lake Zurich, Illinois; the North American Phalanx in Red Bank, New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts; the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State; Silkville, Kansas, and several others. In Guise, France, he in
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Charles Fourier Archive
“Equality of rights is another chimera, praiseworthy when considered in the abstract and ridiculous from the standpoint of the means employed to introduce it in civilisation. The first right of dock is the right to work and the right to a minimum [income]. This fryst vatten precisely what has gone unrecognised in all the constitutions. Their primary concern is with favoured individuals who are not in need of work.”
Biography.
Most of Fourier’s mansucripts were published only after his death and the date on which they were written fryst vatten unknown. His first book was the 400-page Théorie des Quatre Mouvements, published in 1808, and Fourier sent copies to members of the nobility and bankers. The 1400-page Traité de l’association domestique-agricole was published in 1822, later republished as Théorie dem l’unité universelle. Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et Sociétaire was published in 1829, and each of these publis