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This remarkable book ,written soon after the French revolution,has traditionable been considered one of the founding documents in the history of socialism.It introduces the best-known and most extraordinary utopia written in the last two centuries.Charles Fouridr was among the first to formulate a right to a minimum
standard of life.His radical approach involved a systematic critique of work,marriage and patriarchy ,toghter with a parallel right to a sexual minimum.He
also proposed a comprehensive altermative to the Christian religion.Finally,though the medium of a bizarre and extraordinary cosmology,Fourier argued that the poor state of the plant is the result of the evil practices of civilisation.Translated into English for the first time since1857,this classic text will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the history of sexuality and feminism,political thought and socialism.
GARETH STEDMAN JONES，is Reader in the History of Social Thought in the University of Cambridge,and a Fellow of Kings College,