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He eschewed religion (which, he once claimed, "has yet to put down even a tentative root in my soul"), yet often explained artistic creation in spiritual terms; he was the most serious of thinkers, yet was capable of describing seriousness as "ultimately dull and probably inhuman"; he cherished civilization, but found much to admire in the theories of Charles Fourier, "who thought civilization a mistake. In Great Britain the term was used to describe the teachings of Robert Owen (1771-1858) and in France the teachings of Charles Fourier (1771-1837) and Henri Saint Simon (1760-1852). With the utopian socialist movements of early nineteenth-century France, for example, reformers such as Charles Fourier and Henri de Saint-Simon sought a new way of life based on the abolition of private property and the creation of self-contained communities. |
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Charles Fourier - French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837)