Marx quoted from Kenneth White, Introduction to Ode to Charles Fourier by André Breton, trans. Kenneth White (London: Cape Goliard/Grossman, 1969).
André Breton: Selections, ed. Mark Polizzotti (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 32.
In Fourier there are twelve passions common to everybody. The five "luxurious" passions (that correspond to the five senses) tend toward luxury, pleasure, the formation of groups and affective ties. The four cardinal, affective passions – friendship, ambition, love and "familism" – concern relationships with others; and finally the three "distributive or mechanizing" passions, the Cabalist, the Butterfly, and the Composite that have to do with calculation and organization of pleasurable work. The twelve passions combine in a thirteenth super-passion, Unityism, that rules the Destinies for all time. This is the "inclination of the individual to harmonize everything around him and of the whole human race... it is a boundless philanthropy, a universal well-being," the comprehension of the whole. Charles Fourier, The Theory of the Four Movements, eds. Gareth Stedman Jones, Ian Patterson (1808; Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1996), 81.
Walter Benjamin, "Fourier," (c.1940), in Das Passagen-Werk (Berlin: Suhrkamp), 792.
Michael Helm, introduction to Stammefælleskabet by Charles Fourier (Copenhagen: Borgen, 1972).
Fourier, Theory of the Four Movements, 34.
Fourier, Theory of the Four Movements, 72. To Barthes, Fourier is a "logothet," the founder of a new discourse whose social inventions are facts of writing. Roland Barthes, Sade Fourier Loyola (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1971), 83.
Barthes, Sade Fourier Loyola, 88.
Theodor Adorno, forward to Theorie der vier Bewegungen und der allgemeinen Bestimmungen by Charles Fourier, trans. Gertrud von Holzhausen (Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1966), 5.
Benjamin, Das Passagen-Werk, 775.
For Joscelyn Godwin, Fourier's cosmogony is "as traditional as could be" viewed from the point of a Pythagorean tradition. See Joscelyn Godwin, The Harmony of the Spheres. A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 1993), 357. Unlike Godwin, Benjamin holds that "Man muss sich klar machen, dass Fouriers Harmonien auf keiner der überkommenen Zahlenmysterien beruhren, wie dem pythagoräischen oder dem keplerschen. Sie sind gar aus ihm selber herausgesponnen und sie geben der Harmonie etwas Unnahbares und Bewahrtes: sie umgeben die harmoniens gleichsam mit Stacheldraht. Le bonheur du phalanstère es tun bonheur barbelé." (Das Passagen-Werk, 785–6).
Fourier's Theory of The Four Movements covers the social (or passionate), animal (or instinctive), organic and material movements.
Fourier, Theory of The Four Movements, 16.
Maurice Blanchot, "En guise d'introduction" Topique, 4-5 (October, 1970), 8.
Barthes talks about the domesticity of utopia: "The area of need is Politics, the area of Desire is what Fourier calls Domestics. Fourier has chosen Domestics over Politics, he has constructed a domestic utopia (but can a utopia be otherwise? Can a utopia be political? Isn't politics: every language less one, that of Desire? ... Politics is what forecloses desire, save to achieve it in the form of neurosis: political neurosis or, more exactly: the neurosis of politicizing." Barthes, Sade Fourier Loyola, 85.
Linda Sargent Wood discusses holistic world views in the postwar era and how their influence peaked in the sixties; apart from Fuller and King, she discusses Rachel Carson, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Esalen Institute. Linda Sargent Wood, A More Perfect Union. Holistic World Views and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II (New York Oxford University Press, 2010).
"Ex-capitale hippie devenue nécropole oú les bourgeois viennent contempler des post-hippies, drogués á la dérive, figurants volontaires, écume d'une vague brisée" Dominique Desanti, "San Francisco: Des hippies pour Fourier," Topique, 4-5 (October, 1970), 209.
"Leur Love universal, une tolerance totale des tendances minoritaires et des singularités" Ibid., 210.
Ibid., 209.
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999), 638.
Roland Barthes, "A Case of Cultural Criticism," in The Language of Fashion, trans. Andy Stafford, ed. Michael Carter (Oxford: Berg, 2006), 113.
This and the following quotes from Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1956), 217-218.
White, Introduction to Ode to Charles Fourier by André Breton.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 293 and 292.
Fourier, Theory of The Four Movements, 283.
Ibid., 284.
Ibid., 284.