The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier: Selected Texts on Work, Love, and Passionate Attraction

Politics & Social Sciences

Beecher, Jonathan

FOURIER, CHARLES

Bienvenu, Richard

Politics & Government

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Examines the socialist visions of the nineteenth-century utopian thinker, describes the intellectual background of the period, and assesses the influence of Fourier's ideas

Charles Fourier: The visionary and his world

History

Europe

University of California Press

Examines the socialist visions of the nineteenth-century utopian thinker, describes the intellectual background of the period, and assesses the influence of Fourier's ideas

Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Jonathan F. Beecher's accomplished study is both a lively life story of one of the most engaging figures among the French romantic intellectuals of the 1840s and a compelling chronicle of early French socialism. Victor Considerant (1808-1893), a follower of the great utopian thinker Charles Fourier, played an important role in the creation of a Fourierist movement and the development of socialist journalism. In the process of conveying a rich understanding of Considerant's life, Beecher traces the rise and fall of French romantic socialism and demonstrates how the utopian visions of thinkers such as Charles Fourier came to inspire a whole generation of young radicals and reformers not only in France but also in Dostoevky's Russia and in the America of Horace Greeley and Margaret Fuller. He paints a vivid portrait of a particularly important period of European intellectual history and gives his readers insight into the experience of a generation of thinkers and political activists. This comprehensive history will become the definitive work on Victor Considerant, and―along with Beecher's classic study of Fourier―a major contribution to the history of French socialism in the nineteenth century.

Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism

This is a full-scale intellectual biography of the French utopian socialist thinker, Chales Fourier (1772 - 1837), one of the great social critics of the nineteenth century. It is certain to become an invaluable resource for all students of modern European intellectual history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier

Business & Money

Univ of Missouri Pr

Economics

Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848

The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals. In France, the revolution galvanised the energies of major romantic writers and intellectuals. This book follows nine writers through the revolution of 1848 and its aftermath: Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, Victor Hugo, Alexis de Tocqueville, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Alexander Herzen, Karl Marx, and Gustave Flaubert. Conveying a sense of the experience of 1848 as these writers lived it, this fresh and engaging study captures the sense of possibility at a time when it was not yet clear that the Second French Republic had no future. By looking closely at key texts in which each writer attempted to understand, judge, criticise, or intervene in the revolution, Jonathan Beecher shows how each endeavoured to answer the question posed explicitly by Tocqueville: Why, within the space of two generations, did democratic revolutions twice culminate in the dictatorship of a Napoleon?

Cambridge University Press

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