Charles Fourier : the visionary and his world

Examines the socialist visions of the nineteenth-century utopian thinker, describes the intellectual background of the period, and assesses the influence of Fourier's ideas This is the first full-scale intellectual biography of the French utopian socialist thinker, Charles 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. 1986: by Jonathan Beecher- Large book, 618 pages, the subject lived in the early 1800's.