Introduction
Principal events in Fourier`s life
A brief note on further reading
Traslator`s introduction The Theory of the Four Movements and of the General
Destinies
1808 Introduction
Preliminary discourse
Plan
First part: Exposition of some branches of the general destinies
General ideas about the destinies
Phases and p[eriods of the social order in the third planet namely the earth
Epilogue:On the proximity of the social metamorphosis
Second part: Description of the various branches of the private or domestic destinies
First account:On the progressive household of the seventh period,and on the discontents
of the secxes in the incoherent household
Second acount:On the splendour of the combined order
On the abandonment of moral philosophy
Third part:Confirmation derived from the inadequacy of the inadequacy of the inexact sciences to deal with all the civilised mechanism presents
First demonstration:Freemasonry and its still unknown properties
Second demonstration:The insular monopoly and its still unknown properties
Interlude:System of development of Civilisation
Third demonstration:Commercial licence:Its known vices and its unknown dangers
Epilogue:On the social chaos of the globe
Omitted chapter
Note A
Advice to the civilised
1818 Introduction
Index