Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World

by Jonathan Beecher

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520356986
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/25/2022
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	650
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Beecher is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
 

Editorial Reviews

This is the first scholarly biography of the life and thought of the French social critic Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Long regarded as merely a prophet of modern socialism and forerunner of Marx, Fourier was in fact a profound and systematic thinker in his own right, and his grandiose and sometimes bizzare-sounding utopian ideas and psychological theories must be viewed ``not as curious species of exotic fauna but a part of a larger world.'' Beecher traces the development of Fourier's ideas through his early years as a traveling salesman and provincial journalist to his emergence as a political prophet and founder of one of the most significant early socialist movements in France. The result of over 20 years of careful research, his book is sure to become the standard on Fourier's life and writings. Raymond Frey, Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J.

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