Bentham

ISBN-13: 9781509521906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 250 str.

Michael Quinn

Recenzje

'Jeremy Bentham was a tireless schemer and policy-designer, a control freak and life-long exposer of corruption and misrule. Michael Quinn's masterful volume explains how Bentham's liberating and oppressive ideas all flow from the same principles.'Peter Niesen, University of Hamburg'This book is an excellent one-stop source for all things Bentham. Quinn's command of the philosopher's vast corpus is extraordinary. Through a series of lucid and engaging chapters he contributes a new reading of Bentham as a pragmatic and supremely relevant theorist of governmental reason.'Stephen Engelmann, University of Illinois at Chicago

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter1: Life and Logic: what matters, and why?Chapter 2: The principle of utility: raising the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and lawChapter 3: Direct Legislation: Bentham and Penal LawChapter 4: Indirect LegislationChapter 5: Civil Law and Political EconomyChapter 6: Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (I): Panoptic Architecture and ManagementChapter 7: Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (II): The Prevention of MisruleChapter 8: International Law, the world next doorChapter 9: Jeremy Bentham: why bother?Notes

O autorze

Michael Quinn is an Honorary Research Fellow at Philipps University Marburg and Justus Liebig University Gießen. He was previously Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project at University College London.