biography
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Fourier, (François Marie) Charles
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pronunciation:
[fooryay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1772–1837)
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| biography:
| Socialist and philosopher, born in Besançon, NE France. He worked as a clerk before publishing his first work, Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales (1808, The Social Destiny of Man, or, Theory of the Four Movements). After inheriting his mother's estate in 1812, he was able to develop his ideas. Concerned by abuses within society he proposed a new and radical utopian ideal in Le Nouveau Monde industriel (1829–30). His idea was that society should be reorganized into carefully planned self-sufficient units of about 1500 people (known as ‘phalanstères’), and that marriage should be rejected. His theories earned the name Fourierism and strongly affected French thought in the 19th-c. His other works include Traité d'association domestique agricole (1822) and Le Nouveau Monde industriel et sociétaire (1829, The New Industrial World). |
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