Press
“Fourier is not our contemporary—he’s weirder and more challenging than that. Nevertheless, his work has something cryptic and discomforting to tell our faulty contemporary world.” —Karl Whitney, 3:AM Magazine
“Reading a document as removed from modernity as The Hierarchies is like viewing a map of a forgotten country, labeled according to an indecipherable legend. Left to wander the foreign landscape, we are freed from the puzzle of the historical Fourier, and left only with the strange, exceptional human being that Fourier undoubtedly was.” —Dylan Suher, The Review of Contemporary Fiction
“These are good times to read The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy. [...] One imagines it protruding from the suit pockets of politicians meeting to decide the economic fate of Europe; or, well thumbed, from Frau Merkel's purse.” —Mike Mosher, Leonardo
“The haunting thing about this little book is that much of it remains quite timely.” —Sophie Grimes, Anobium
“This excellent translation of two of Charles Fourier’s jokes should disabuse any student of socialism who still imagines that Fourier was serious when he wrote about pink lemonade seas and anti-lions.” —Pamela Pilbeam, The English Historical Review
“Fourier, no fan of monogamy or marriage, believed the only hope for civilization was for women to liberate themselves. That would make him a cuck by many standards—in which case, let’s look to the cucks. They might just be the future of manliness.” —Jessica Crispin, The Baffler
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