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A phalanstère (or phalanstery) was a type of building designed for a self-contained utopian community, ideally consisting of 500–2000 people working together for mutual benefit, and developed in the early 19th century by Charles Fourier. Fourier chose the name by combining the French word phalange ( phalanx, an emblematic military unit in ...

Charles Fourier (1772–1837) was a salesman for a cloth merchant in Lyons who conceived of a different form of social organization, called a "phalanx," that was part garden city and part agricultural commune. All jobs would rotate and a network of small decentralized communities would replace the state. He also believed that equal rights for ...

Charles Fourier. 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 Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream thinking in modern society.

This chapter examines the critique of work put forward by the early-nineteenth-century utopian-socialist Charles Fourier. It analyses the concept of ‘repugnant labour’ in Fourier and its place within a wider critique of early industrial capitalism. The analysis then turns to a discussion of the details of Fourier’s utopian proposals for a ...

Jean Gigoux, Portrait of Charles Fourier, 1835 via Wikimedia Commons The core of Fourier’s political philosophy is this: passions must be expressed, and they must shape the very rationality and geometry of a socialist state. Closely observing the developments of the French revolution, Fourier saw in prevailing revolutionary ideals a spirit of repression: rules and structures impose

Charles Fourier: 1772-1837. Charles Fourier was born in 1772 and lived until 1837. He was the influencer of many utopian societies that emerged in the US around mid-1800. He influenced the likes of Karl Marx and also Albert Brisbane, who influenced the Brook Farm utopian society in Massachusetts. During Fourier’s lifetime he did not witness ...

Charles Fourier was a French socialist who lived from 1772 until 1837 and is credited with being an early Utopian Socialist similar to Robert Owen . He wrote several works related to his socialist ideas which centered on his main idea for society: small communities based on cooperation. In general, Fourier believed that poverty was one of ...

Charles Fourier 1772-1837. (Full name François Marie Charles Fourier) French Utopian social philosopher. Fourier was a French social theorist influenced by the failure of the French Revolution to ...