Jeremy Bentham
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 5
January 1794 to December 1797
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The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and endingin 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national schemefor the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on theAmerican Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he madesignificant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penalcode, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas,and then on his pan…
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The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and endingin 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national schemefor the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on theAmerican Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he madesignificant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penalcode, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas,and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of originaland ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he publishedlittle during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, arelatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how thefoundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism inthe early nineteenth century.Bentham's life in the mid-1790s was dominated by thepanopticon, both as a prison and as a network of workhouses for the indigent.The letters in this volume document in excruciating detail Bentham's attempt tobuild a panopticon prison in London, and the opposition he faced from localaristocratic landowners. Hisbrother Samuel was appointed as Inspector-General of Naval Works and inSeptember 1796 married Mary Sophia Fordyce.Praise for the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, volumes 1-5'These volumes provide significant additions to our understanding of Bentham's work in the first half of his life up to 1797. The insights they offer into Bentham's activities, ideas and method cast light on his philosophical and political positions in a seminal period in British and European history.'British Journal for the History of Philosophy
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Weitere Autoren: Milne, Alexander Taylor (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-911576-24-2
- EAN: 9781911576242
- Produktnummer: 23414822
- Verlag: UCL Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'588 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Alexander Taylor (Jock) Milne (1906-94), scholar and historian, was Secretary and Librarian of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.Professor J.H. Burns (1921-2012), historian, Reader in the History of Political Thought 1961-6 and Professor in the History of Political Thought 1966-86 in the Department of History, University College London, was in 1961 appointed as the first General Editor of the authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, a post he held until 1978.
100 weitere Werke von Jeremy Bentham:
January 1794 to December 1797
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