Design for Utopia: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier

Politics & Social Sciences

Charles Fourier

Social Sciences

Schocken

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

Politics & Government

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

Selections from the works of Fourier

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Gordon Press

<p>Fourier enjoys the honor of being the first thinker to push Rousseau to the logical conclusion of a complete condemnation of Civilization. Not only did he blame it for what we call Capitalism, he also saw it as the source of the evil of Work as alienation (to use Marx s term). The fact that we must labor at what we do not love in order to make a living defines the essence of Civilization s primal error. Fourier ascribed his big revelation to a rigorous application of Newton s law of attraction, not just as a cosmic force but also as a social force. Fourier realized that Passion, far from being the cause of sin, might actually serve to enable the emergence of a human society (he called it Harmony) in which everyone does exactly as they please; as a result, everything will be done well (passionately) and everyone will be happy. And if everyone is ecstatic and joyful, how could there exist any disorder or violence? The present text is excerpted from Le Nouveau monde amoureux, Fourier s magnum opus on the New Word of Love, which was too hot to publish during his lifetime. Food and sex are his answers to all problems. And if Fourier exalted erotic pleasure, he went even farther in his obsession with food....</p>

World War of Small Pastries

Self-Help

Autonomedia

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