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Charles Fourier (1772-1837)

July 2, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Charles Fourier [tag feed] BY AND ABOUT CHARLES FOURIER: Bibliography of the works of Charles Fourier Charles Fourier in the “Phalange” (2nd series, 1836–1837) Edouard Silberling, Entries from the Dictionary Of Phalansterian Sociology Gabriel-Desire Laverdant, “Of Property” (1846) Unsigned Articles in the Journal de Lyon et Du Midi, perhaps written by Charles Fourier, 1801-1802 Theory of Egoism (pdf) Of Cheerfulness (pdf) Journal de Lyon, Nouvelles de la France et de l’étranger: (FR/EN) (pdf) On Empires That Have the Vapors Like Pretty Ladies (1803) Letter to Monsieur Délyror (1803) Invitation to the Echoes (1803) La Phalange Remedy for Various […]

Charles Fourier in the the “Journal de Lyon, Nouvelles de la France et de l’étranger”

February 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is amusing for me to make so many young muses gossip at will: if I have an article printed, these gentlemen immediately fight against me in verse and prose, in the two newspapers. Aren’t they a little confused being twenty to one? Couldn’t you, gentlemen, talk about anything other than me? Where would your mind be without my madness? You only develop it when I excite it. I Am not so uniform; satire, harmony, the triumvirate, all that is madness for some, good for others; but at least it is varied. You would still have cackled about the problem of women’s liberty, if I had given it.

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Charles Fourier, “Sur les charlataneries commerciales” (1807/1808)

February 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

English translation (pdf) UN PAMPHLET DE FOURIER. La discussion qui vient d’avoir lieu sur les ventes des marchandises neuves à l’encan donne de l’à-propos à la reproduction d’un article assez curieux publié à Lyon, par Fourier, il y a environ trente-trois ou trente-quatre ans, sous forme de pamphlet, Nous voyons avec plaisir de beaux esprits découvrir chaque jour les vices de la concurrence anarchique et de la liberté illimitée et déréglée du commerce; mais il est intéressant aussi de trouver dans une simple boutade de Fourier, lancée en 1807 ou 1808, plus de bonne critique et de bons principes que […]

Bibliography of the works of Charles Fourier

February 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Notes (from Wiki): Lettre de Fourier au grand juge (with material by Charles Pellarin) at Google Books Oeuvres complètes (1841) THÉORIE DES QUATRE MOUVEMENTS ET DE DESTINÉES GÉNÉRALES. TROISIÈME ÉDITION. at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. PRÈMIERE VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. DEUXIÈME VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. TROISIÈME VOLUME. DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books THÉORIE DE L’UNITÉ UNIVERSELLE. QUATRIÈME VOLUME DEUXIÈME ÉDITION at Google Books LE NOUVEAU MONDE INDUSTRIEL ET SOCIÉTAL. TROISIÈME ÉDITION. at Google Books De l’anarchie industrielle et scientifique at Google Books La fausse industrie morcelée, […]

Charles Fourier in the “Phalange” (2nd series, 1836–1837)

January 14, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[IN-PROGRESS] Translations: Remedies for Various Slaveries (pdf) SCIENCE SOCIALE. Remède de divers Esclavages. (Article de M. Fourier.) Au moment où l’Angleterre fait un folle dépense de cinq cents millions pour affranchir ses esclaves coloniaux, qu’elle pourrait libérer sans aucun frais et sans risque de déclin de l’industrie aux Antilles ; Au moment où le France, dans un accès d’Anglomania, veut faire chorus de duperie et projette un nouvel impôt ou emprunt de trois cents millions pour affranchir ses nègres coloniaux, qu’elle peut libérer sans qu’il en coûte rien ; N’est-ce pas le cas d’examiner la méthode qui affranchirait GRATIS tous les […]

Charles Fourier, “Neology”

July 13, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

NEOLOGY. Has not a new Science the ability to use some new words and to create for itself, if necessary, a complete nomenclature? Would we refuse to the sciences the prerogative granted to the subordinate functions, which have their collection of technical terms chosen without method? I will use that license with moderation, and when I am forced to resort to neology, it will be with a care to avoid NEOLOGISMS and arbitrariness, and support the denominations already accepted in the fixed sciences. The same regularity will reign in the signs, the special numbers, the gamut sand series, and the whole […]

Fourier, “Intermeshing of the Series by Cabalistic Gastronomy”

October 7, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE NEW INDUSTRIAL WORLD CHAPTER XXVI. Intermeshing of the Series by Cabalistic Gastronomy. In the course of the preceding sections and the Preface, we have had occasion to jest about a thesis several times repeated and laughable at first glance; it is that (224) in the societary regime gluttony is a source of wisdom, insight, and social accord. I can give that strange thesis the most regular proofs. No passion has been more badly esteemed than gluttony. Can we presume that God considered as a vice the passion to which he […]

Charles Fourier, “Melons that Never Deceive”

January 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE THEORY OF UNIVERSAL UNITY VOLUME 3, pages 47-50. CIS-AMBLE, Melons that never deceive, or prodigies of composite serial Gastronomy. Let us give some articles to each of the classes of readers. There are those who love amusing demonstrations, connected to their favorite pleasures; the gastronomes are among this number: I attempt, in this mediant, their conversion. I suppose that they are already moved by the depictions of the refinement that the Passional Series introduces into good food. I will give gormandizing some more nobles colors, and present it as the principle aide of the economic […]

Charles Fourier, “Major or Gastrosophic War”

January 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

A colleague and I have been working on a translation from Fourier’s New Amorous World, which focuses on the “wars” between the armies of Harmony to determine the most generally pleasing series of means of preparation for petits pâtés. This is a companion piece from The Theory of Universal Unity, which describes variations on the same process. Major or Gastrosophic War. Let us banish calculations from an article dedicated to beautiful subjects, to nice tastes. Let us not, however, entirely neglect method. We call nice tastes those with which we can form at least a regular series […]

Charles Fourier, Cardinal and the Principal Movements in the Harmony of the Universe

September 16, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

FOURIER. I am aware that it is very humiliating for an age in possession of so much physical and mathematical science, to be branded with ignorance concerning other branches of knowledge; to be openly accused of entertaining false notions on many subjects, and of not being initiated even in the most elementary details of several very important sciences; such, for instance, as the four following:— Industrial Association. Passional Attraction. Aromal Mechanism. Universal Analogy. If the pride of modern learning feel offended at this sweeping declaration, let it reflect upon the following table of distinctions in the branches of universal unity; […]