Jeremy Bentham
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1
1752 to 1776
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The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters writtenboth to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) withhis earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 withcorrespondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for theprovision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the AmericanRevolution 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 pano…
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The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters writtenboth to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) withhis earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 withcorrespondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for theprovision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the AmericanRevolution 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 early life is marked by his extraordinaryprecociousness, but also family tragedy: by the age of 10 he had lost five infantsiblings and his mother. The letters in this volume document his difficultrelationship with his father and his increasing attachment to his survivingyounger brother Samuel, his education, his interest in chemistry and botany,and his committing himself to a life of philosophy and legal reform.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: Sprigge, Timothy L. S. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-911576-06-8
- EAN: 9781911576068
- Produktnummer: 23414819
- Verlag: UCL Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'114 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Timothy L.S. Sprigge (1932-2007), philosopher, having completed his PhD under the supervision of A.J. Ayer, was in 1963 appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, where he remained until 1979 when appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.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:
1752 to 1776
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