Or how Fourier substitutes to the traditional morality based on the repression of desires an ethic based on the profusion and on the free development of passions. The point is to reevaluate desires and passions, to see their positive dimension whereas civilization sees them negatively. With such a transvaluation, Fourier anticipated the theories of Freud and Marcuse ; it constitutes one 0f the essential moments of his revolutionary thinking.
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