Fourier: 'The Theory of the Four Movements'

by Charles Fourier , Edited by Gareth Stedman Jones , Ian Patterson

• ISBN13: 9780521356930
• ISBN10: 0521356938
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This remarkable book, written soon after the French Revolution, has traditionally been considered one of the founding documents in the history of socialism. It introduces the best known and most extraordinary Utopia written in the past two centuries. Charles Fourier was among the first to formulate a right to a minimum standard of life. His radical approach involved a systematic critique of work, marriage and patriarchy, together with a parallel right to a "sexual minimum."

Table of Contents

Introduction

Principal events in Fourier's life

Brief note on further reading (in English)

Translator's introduction

Theory of the four movements and of the general destinies

1808 Introduction

First part

Second part

Third part

Omitted chapter

Note A

Advice to the civilised

1818 Introduction.