Fourier and Anarchism

E. S. Mason

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1928, vol. 42, issue 2, 228-262

Abstract: I. Revolutionary groups in their attitude to science. Pretensions of anarchism to scientific method, 229. — II. Social sciences and modern anarchism draw from a common source, the conception of natural law, 231. — Ways in which this conception has been used, 235. — Reasons for the sharp divergence of anarchism from the point of view of students of the social sciences, 237. — III. Fourier's system is essentially anarchistic, 241. — The characteristics of his anarchism in its use of the idea of a natural order, 243.—The natural order of Fourier as an equilibrium of passional attractions, 250. — IV. Distinctiveness of Fourier's anarchism. His romanticism, 156. — His modernism, 260. — Criticism and summary, 261.

Date: 1928
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