Philosopher
Charles Fourier
Overview
François Marie Charles Fourier (; French: [ʃaʁl fuʁje]; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of his views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream in modern society. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.
Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a movement of intentional communities. Among them in the United States were the community of Utopia, Ohio; La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas; Lake Zurich, Illinois; the North American Phalanx in Red Bank, New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts; the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State; Silkville, Kansas, and several others. In Guise, France, he influenced the Familistery of Guise. Fourier later inspired a diverse array of revolutionary thinkers and writers.
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Philosophers who discussed Charles Fourier
- Étienne Cabet
- Feminism
- Karl Marx
- Thomas More
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Friedrich Engels
- Charles Babbage
- William Henry Channing
- Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
Ideas Charles Fourier discusses
- Feminism
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anarchism
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Women's rights
- Murray Bookchin
- Libertarian socialism
- Duty
- Marxism
- 19th-century philosophy
- Marquis de Sade
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Walter Benjamin
- Political philosophy
- Socialism
- Kingdom of France
- Surrealism
- Fredric Jameson
- Eros and Civilization
- Gender
- Marseille
- Bordeaux
- Herbert Marcuse
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.