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Fourier

Fourier

1 9.7
A French thinker who wanted people to live in cooperative communities
  • proper noun
  • /ˈfʊəriˌeɪ/
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  • The theories of Charles Fourier have influenced various movements focused on communal living and equality.
  • Charles Fourier

Ripon was started by a bunch of Fourier socialists.

Examples

  • Many scholars study the works of Charles Fourier to understand his ideas about social reform and utopian communities.

  • I favor the socialist model developed by the 19th-century French social critic Fourier.

    Metropolitan (1990)

  • By any chance, would you have any book on the French social philosopher Fourier?

    Metropolitan (1990)

  • Ripon was started by a bunch of Fourier socialists.

    MIT OpenCourseWare

  • Bob Black, in his work The Abolition of Work, advocates Fourier's idea of attractive work as a solution to his criticisms of work conditions in contemporary society.

    Blog text (10)

  • What the hell—by way of Charles Fourier, I'll use this as an excuse to mention an all-time favorite film of mine, Whit Stillman's Metropolitan.

    Blog text (13)

  • She seemed to know that herself, as she knew that among her monthly meetings of earnest young women, gathered to discuss Goethe, Swedenborg, and Fourier, she was valued more for her sensibility than for her brilliance.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Clearly, here we are far away from more pragmatic nineteenth-century utopian conceptions, considerations, and preoccupations a la Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, or even Zola and the other Naturalists.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Charles Fourier believed that a cooperative society could achieve greater happiness for all its members.

Compounds

Fourier analysis
  • Specialized
1 9.0

A method that breaks a repeating signal into simple sine and cosine waves

Fourier series
  • Specialized
8.6

A way to write a repeating shape or wave as a sum of sine and cosine waves

Surface Forms

Fourier main

Etymology

Fourier is a French family name. A helpful way to remember Charles Fourier is to think of four + 'year' as a short rhyme that makes the name easy to recall. He was a French social thinker who imagined communities where people lived and worked together, so Fourier is linked to utopian socialism.