{"product_id":"the-lemonade-ocean-fourier-and-the-quiet-art-of-a-good-day-9798259194878","title":"The Lemonade Ocean: Fourier and the Quiet Art of a Good Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Boris Kriger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Philosophers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery social thinker in history has started from the same assumption: something is wrong with people. Religion says suppress your desires. The Enlightenment says discipline your mind. Marx says transform your consciousness. Liberalism says compete harder. The prescription changes; the diagnosis never does. The patient is always the problem.\u003cbr\u003eThen along came Charles Fourier - a mild-mannered French clerk who, in the early nineteenth century, said something no one had said before and almost no one has said since: there is nothing wrong with humans. The world is badly designed. Redesign the world.\u003cbr\u003eThe Lemonade Ocean follows Fourier's extraordinary idea - that civilization should be engineered around people rather than people engineered to fit civilization - from its eccentric origins through its spectacular failures, its quiet vindications, and its startling relevance to a world of artificial intelligence, vanishing jobs, and the uneasy suspicion that we have been measuring success all wrong.\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, the book explores Fourier's magnificent obsessions - his twelve passions, his architectural dreams, his fixation on communal dining, his prophecy that the seas would turn to lemonade - and asks a question he never quite answered: What is the difference between what we want and what we actually need? And what happens when a society can't tell the two apart?\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about the most dangerous idea in the history of social thought: that a good day - a single day in which no one was harmed, no one was humiliated, and nothing was destroyed - might be the highest achievement a civilization can aspire to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeywords: \u003c\/b\u003e utopian philosophy, Charles Fourier, social design, human needs, basic income, future of work, redefining success\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883187912855,"sku":"9798259194878","price":1685.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798259194878.webp?v=1781100094","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-lemonade-ocean-fourier-and-the-quiet-art-of-a-good-day-9798259194878","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}