![]() Although both Owen and Saint-Simon clearly were men of the nineteenth century in their concern with education and with industry, Fourier, just as clearly, was a throwback to the eighteenth century, and particularly to Rousseau. In the strong cultural recation to technocratic modes of thought, with their emphasis on rationality and economizing techniques, there is today the resurgence of emphasis on feeling, sentiment, emotion, and the "natural man" who will live by sensation and impulse, unencumbered by restraint and denial. If Henri de Saint-Simon, the compatriot with whom he is mistakenly linked, was the prophet of technocracy, then in the new cultural Zeitgeist Fourier may be considered the guru of the New Left. ![]() Just as well, one was a freudo-marxist and the other followed French thinkers like Sartre. For Marcuse, it will liberate Eros, ontologically defined for Brown, it wil reinstate polymorphous-perverse pleasures for the British psychoanalyst Laing, following the French moralist Michel Foucault, it will erase the distinction between sanity and madness. The revolution that must come, they proclaim, must be not only political but sexual as well. George Ripley's Unpublished Lecture on Charles Fourierīell, Daniel 1968. Morality, Economy, and the Nature of the World: Fourier and Thoreau Parody and Liberation in The New Amorous World of Charles Fourier Charles Fourier Versus the Gastronomes: The Contested Ground of Early Nineteenth-Century Consumption and Tastes Education and Utopia: Robert Owen and Charles Fourier The Reaction of Charles Fourier to the French Revolution
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