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	Charles Fourier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fourier coined the word féminisme in 1837; as early as 1808, he had argued that the extension of women's rights was the general principle of all social progress.
		Fourier inspired the founding of the communist community called La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas as well as several other communities within the United States of America, such as North American Phalanx.
		François Marie Charles Fourier was born in 1772.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Fourier (659 words)

	Lecture 21: The Utopian Socialists: Charles Fourier (1)
		Charles Fourier was born into a well-established family of cloth merchants and spent the bulk of his life engaged in commerce.
		For Fourier, all manual labor was arduous and irksome -- whether in the factory, workshop or field, the plight of the laboring population was intolerably dehumanizing.
		Fourier’s phalanx was to become a self-contained community housing 1,620 members with a myriad of subdivisions designed to encourage a dynamic interplay of various human passions.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture21a.html (2829 words)

	Charles Fourier
		Fourier was the youngest of the Family, having three sisters, one of whom became related by marriage to the gastronomer, Brillet—Savarin.
		Fourier wished to become a military engineer, but he did not have the requisite social standing, so it was decided that he should follow in his Father’s Footsteps.
		Fourier urged his generation to reject the new chains that were being forged for it in the guise of’ an ennobling and holy ethic of’ work.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/Theory/NonMarx_Socialism/Utopian_socialism/charles_fourier.htm (2783 words)

	AllRefer.com - Charles Fourier (Political Science, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Charles Fourier[shArl fOOryA´] Pronunciation Key, 1772–1837, French social philosopher.
		Fourier was not ready to discard capitalism completely; basically his ideal was an agricultural society, systematically arranged.
		After Fourier's death his principal disciple, Victor Prosper ConsidErant, tried to found a colony in Texas.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FourierC.html (375 words)

	Charles Marie Fourier Biography / Biography of Charles Marie Fourier World of Sociology Biography
		Born François Charles Marie Fourier in Besancon, France, on April 7, 1772, Fourier was the ultimate prophet of a utopian society, so utopian that "sea water could be turned into lemonade" and human beings had remarkable powers to change their world.
		Fourier's reconstruction of society was based on associations of producers known as phalanges (or phalanxes).
		To Fourier, these concepts were not merely ideas he had constructed but actual laws that existed to govern society, much as Isaac Newton had discovered laws of physical motion.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-marie-fourier-soc (741 words)

	HES: BIO--Charles Fourier
		Fourier spent the rest of his life extending his critique of contemporary civilization, devising schematic outlines and systematic compendia of his ideas in order to reach a wider audience, and seeking a wealthy patron who would make it possible to establish a working model of his idealized community.
		Fourier also had a following in Romania and, through the popularization of his ideas by Albert Brisbane (1809-1890), the social reformer, Fourierist disciple, and editor of the Phalanx (1843-1845), enjoyed the greatest practical trial of the phalanstery system in the United States, where some forty-odd phalanxes were established between 1843 and 1858.
		As a social thinker, Fourier was a transitional figure, reacting to the ultrarationality of the Enlightenment and presaging the elevation of the instinctual in the Romantic age.
	www.eh.net /pipermail/hes/2005-April/002960.html (1735 words)

	Glossary of People: Fo
		Fourier drew upon the French materialists on the role of environment and education in moulding personality.
		Fourier takes the bourgeoisie, their inspired prophets before the Revolution, and their interested eulogists after it, at their own word.
		"Fourier is not only a critic, his imperturbably serene nature makes him a satirist, and assuredly one of the greatest satirists of all time.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/f/o.htm (899 words)

	Francois Charles Marie Fourier Biography / Biography of Francois Charles Marie Fourier Main Biography
		The French socialist writer François Charles Marie Fourier (1772-1837) was the prophet of a utopian human society.
		Charles Fourier was born at Besançon on April 7, 1772.
		Among people, Fourier thought, the analogy to gravitational attraction was passional attraction, a system of human passions and their interplay.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-francois-charles-marie-fourier (565 words)

	FOURIER, FRANCOIS CHARL... - Online Information article about FOURIER, FRANCOIS CHARL... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Fourier did not live to see the success of his newspaper, and the only practical attempt during his lifetime to establish a phalanstere was a See also:
		October 1837, he lived in daily expectation that wealthy capitalists would see the merits of his scheme and be induced to devote their fortunes to its realization.
		It may be added that subsequent attempts to establish the phalanstere have been uniformly unsuccessful.' Fourier seems to have been of an extremely retiring and sensitive disposition.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FLA_FRA/FOURIER_FRANCOIS_CHARLES_MARIE_.html (2126 words)

	FRANCOIS CHARLES MARIE FOURIER - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCOIS CHARLES MARIE FOURIER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is not, on Fouriers scheme, necessary that private property should be abolished, nor is the privacy of family life impossible within the phalanslre.
		Fourier did not live to see the success of his newspaper, and the only practical attempt during his lifetime to establish a phalanstre was a complete failure.
		Fourier was in no way discouraged by this failure, and till his death, on the 10th of October 1837, he lived in daily expectation that wealthy capitalists would see the merits of his scheme and be induced to devote their fortunes to its realization.
	www.1911ency.org /F/FO/FOURIER_FRANCOIS_CHARLES_MARIE.htm (1754 words)

	François Marie Charles Fourier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		François Marie Charles Fourier, a major influence on Transcendentalist reform, was a brilliant radical theorist, utopian socialist, mystic sensualist, and eccentric visionary.
		While orthodox religion attempts to thwart the passions, Fourier was convinced that instead they should be harnessed, for the good of humanity.
		Fourier proposed large communes, or "Phalanxes," of 1,620 members in which the reformers would enjoy Association and Harmony.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Fourier.html (238 words)

	Emerson--on Fourier
		On the anniversary of the birthday of Fourier, which occurred in April, public festivals were kept by the Socialists in London, in Paris, and in New York.
		Yet in spite of the assurances of its friends, that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.
		Brisbane, in a prefatory note to his article, announces himself as an advocate of the Social Laws discovered by CHARLES FOURIER, and intimates that he wishes to connect whatever value attaches to any statement of his, with the work in which he is exclusively engaged, that of Social Reform.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/fourierism.html (1513 words)

	Charles Fourier
		Charles Fourier was born in Besancon, France, on 7th April, 1773.
		Fourier suggested that these communes should contain about 1,600 people and should attempt to be compatible with each member's "natural talents, passions, and inclinations".
		Although no long-term phalanxes were established, Fourier's ideas influenced a generation of socialists, anarchists, feminists, pacifists, internationalists and others questioning the morality of the capitalist system.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSfourier.htm (292 words)

	The harmonic series of Charles Fourier
		There were two Fouriers: the mathematician Joseph (1768-1830) and the socialist reformer Charles (1772-1837), both studying Harmonic Analysis and building series - although in very different ways...
		An exegesis of André Breton's Ode à Charles Fourier.
		For Fourier, it represents the true scientist or artist living poorly in Civilization, whose worth is not recognized, and who has only his enthusiasm to sustain himself.
	arthur.u-strasbg.fr /~ronse/CF/fourier.html (765 words)

	Fourier, Charles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		FOURIER, CHARLES [Fourier, Charles], 1772-1837, French social philosopher.
		Extemporaneos Charles Fourier (1772-1837): el itinerario que ha seguido Vargas Llosa, en su investigacion de los inventores de sociedades perfectas, desemboca en el utopista mas ambicioso del siglo XIX: Charles Fourier, quien imaginara un mundo sin desdicha basado en su Teoria de la Armonia Universal.
		Application of the Fourier transform in antenna pattern measurements.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FourierC1.asp (502 words)

	PAL:The Utopian Movement
		Charles Fourier is born at Besancon, France on April 7.
		Fourier is imprisoned during social upheaval in Lyons.
		Fourier resides in the country to perfect his theories and his work on Great Treatise but it was never published.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/utopian.html (948 words)

	Fourier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician and physicist
		The Fourier transform, a generalisation of the fourier series
		Charles Fourier (1772-1837), a French utopian socialist thinker
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fourier (107 words)

	Society Philosophy Philosophers F Fourier, Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Charles Fourier, 1772-1837: Selections From His Writings - A collection of passages by this French thinker, as translated by Julia Franklin.
		François Marie Charles Fourier - Brief article considering Fourier, in regard to his influence on the American Transcendentalists.
		The Utopian Socialists: Charles Fourier - Lecture by Steven Kreis, part of a series on European intellectual thought.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/F/Fourier,_Charles (115 words)

	Charles Fourier -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Charles Fourier, engraving by Samuel Sartain after a painting by Jean-François Gigoux
		The 19th-century journalist, essayist, critic, and social reformer George Ripley was the leading promoter and director of Brook Farm, the celebrated utopian community at West Roxbury, Mass., and a spokesman for the utopian socialist ideas of the French social reformer Charles Fourier (see communal living).
		The French mathematician Joseph Fourier, while best known for his pioneering analysis of heat conduction, was also an able public administrator and Egyptologist.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035043 (671 words)

	François Marie Charles Fourier; Fourierism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American Fourierist movement from its roots in the religious, social, and economic upheavals of the 1830s, through its bold communal experiments of the 1840s, to its lingering twilight after the Civil War.
		The phalange, in Fourier's conception, was to be a cooperative agricultural community bearing responsibility for the social welfare of the individual, characterized by continual shifting of roles among its members.
		Cooperative settlements based on Fourier's ideas were started in France and especially the U.S., among which the best known were the short-lived Brook Farm in Massachusetts (1841-46) and the North American Phalanx at Red Bank, N.J. (Adapted from the Encyclopædia Britannica)
	www.omega23.com /new_topics/Fourierism.html (580 words)

	Charles Fourier, "Of the Vices of Civilization," 1822
		Charles Fourier, "Of the Vices of Civilization," 1822
		Document 2D: Charles Fourier, "Of the Vices of Civilization," Théorie de l'Unité Universelle, (1822), reprinted in Selections from the Works of Fourier, edited by Charles Gide and translated by Julia Franklin (London: Sonnenschein, 1901, reprinted New York: Gordon Press, 1972), pp.
		They will cease to figure there in the associative order, where judicious distribution, the proper employment of the sexes and of services, will reduce to one-fourth or one-fifth the number of hands brought into requisition to-day by the immense complication of separated households or inchoherent families.
	www.binghamton.edu /womhist/awrm/doc2d.htm (294 words)

	Cahiers de Corey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thursday April 7th, 2005, is the 233rd birthday of Charles Fourier, the French utopian thinker whose alarmingly imaginative vision influenced Marx and Engels, among many others.
		Fourier Series is the winner of the Fitzpatrick-O'Dinn Award for Best Book-Length Work of Constrained English Literature, as judged by Christian Bök.
		Corey arranges a resonant, emotional lexicon into a quadratic structure that emulates in language the kind of interpersonal relationships that, according to Fourier, might ideally define a social utopia of competitive cooperation.
	joshcorey.blogspot.com /2005/04/happy-birthday-charles-fourier.html (433 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Charles Fourier
		Fourier, (François Marie) Charles (1772-1837), French philosopher and socialist, born in Besançon, and educated at the university there.
		Even more ominous, the romantic imagination had been excited by the stirring drama of revolution and war.
		Under the July Monarchy, the social problems arising out of the Industrial Revolution became matters of increasing debate.
	encarta.msn.com /Charles_Fourier.html (117 words)

	charles fourier - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		I CHARLES FOURIER 1 was born at...York Tribune, of Charles A. Dana, George Ripley and some others, Fourierist ideas had a rapid...
		Fourier was not ready to discard capitalism completely...mechanization and industrialization.
		The garden city was foreshadowed in the writings of Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and James Silk Buckingham, and in the planned industrial communities of Saltaire (1851), Bournville (1879), and...
	www.questia.com /search/charles-fourier (1304 words)

	New Statesman (1996): The Utopian socialist Fourier saw the cabbage as the emblem of mysterious love. (Charles Fourier ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Utopian socialist Fourier saw the cabbage as the emblem of mysterious love.
		(Charles Fourier blames cabbage and cauliflowers for adultery)
		Charles Fourier claims that the cabbage, with its multiple layers, represents veils of deceit.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:21007380&refid=holomed_1 (234 words)

	WHMC-Columbia--Archives Sociétaire, 1832-1882 (C233)--INVENTORY
		The Archives Sociétaire are the records of the followers of Charles Fourier.
		Fourierism, founded by Charles Fourier, advocated the reorganization of society into small communities or phalanxes.
		Fourier's principles were advocated by the "Société pour la propagation et la réalisation de la théorie de Fourier" and the Ecole Sociétaire in Paris, France.
	www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/0233.html (2017 words)

	Chapter 12:
		Utopian Socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) advocated the creation of self-supporting communities known as Phalanxes.
		Albert Brisbane, an American disciple of Fourier, suggested that Fourier’s movement offered an opportunity to continue the great political movement of 1776.
		Brisbane and his followers founded over one hundred cooperative communities, in which all property would be held in common, in the United States, most of which ended in failure.
	www.eureka.edu /emp/jrodrig/webpage/261SOC3_files/slide0009.htm (150 words)

	Charles Fourier, 1772-1837 -- Selections from his Writings
		Because Fourier's writings are lengthy and repetitious we are indeed fortunate that the French economist Charles Gide produced a one-volume edition of selections from Fourier's works, a volume which was then translated into English by Julia Franklin, and published as Selections from the Works of Fourier.
		On the WWW, the Harmonic Series of Charles Fourier is an especially interesting site.
		A Fourier links page looks promising as well.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/fourier.html (5401 words)

	Charles Fourier, "Social Evolution," 1829
		Document 2A: Charles Fourier, "Social Evolution," Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et Sociétaire, (The New Industrial and Associated World, 1829), reprinted in Selections from the Works of Fourier, edited by Charles Gide and translated by Julia Franklin (London: Sonnenschein, 1901, reprinted New York: Gordon Press, 1972), p.
		Charles Fourier (1772-1837) critiqued industrial society at its birth and proposed new forms of social organization to take its place.
		These aspects of Fourier's thought expressed his hope for the evolution of a more efficient and harmonious society that would integrate work, family, and community life more productively and peacefully.
	www.binghamton.edu /womhist/awrm/doc2.htm (221 words)

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