The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy

Admired by Marx, and Engels, the Surrealists, the Situationist International, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes, the great utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) has been many things to many peole: a proto-feminist, a Surrealist ancestor, a cantankerous cosmologist, a social critic, and a humorist, and to this day one of France's truest visionary thinkers. He was also, as this volume demonstrates, a maniacal taxonomist. In this zoological guidebook to cuckoldry and commerce, Charles Fourier offers a caustic critique of the bankruptcy of marriage and the prostitution of the economy, and the hypocrisies of a civilization that overregulates sexual congress while allowing the financial sector to screw over the public.