With his invocation of anti-lions, tails covered in eyes, and oceans turned to lemonade, Charles Fourier’s radical visions of planetary harmony are certainly startling, but what is perhaps more curious about Fourier is Walter Benjamin’s use of his work in the Arcades Project. Benjamin dedicates—in addition to a full convolute—a prominent section to Fourier in each of the 1935 and 1939 prefatory...