Charting Jeremy Bentham's developing career from 1802 to 1808, this collection of letters (most never published before) touches on his legal writings, Panopticon penitentiary project, and exchanges with Sir Samuel Robilly, Francis Horner, and others.
Charting Jeremy Bentham's developing career from 1802 to 1808, this collection of letters (most never published before) touches on his legal writings,...
Much of Bentham's correspondence of this period is about his Panopticon penitentiary scheme. The letters give insight into Bentham's relations with editors, followers, legal and political colleagues, and his conversion to political radicalism.
Much of Bentham's correspondence of this period is about his Panopticon penitentiary scheme. The letters give insight into Bentham's relations with ed...
Jeremy Bentham, the philosopher and reformer, was at the height of his fame and influence in the 1820s. The 301 letters in this volume, many of which are previously unpublished, contain correspondence with international leaders such as Simon Bolivar, the "Liberator," and Bernardino Rivadavia of Buenos Aires, British statesmen such as Robert Peel and Henry Brougham, and leading intellectuals such as John Stuart Mill and Sarah Austin. "
Jeremy Bentham, the philosopher and reformer, was at the height of his fame and influence in the 1820s. The 301 letters in this volume, many of which ...
Preparatory Principles is not a linear text in the conventional sense, but consists of a series of short passages on a variety of topics, whose themes are summarised in marginal headings. The material constitutes a philosophical commonplace book, compiled by Bentham in the mid-1770s, in which he worked out the foundational ideas for his new science of legislation. He then drew on this material when composing such works as A Fragment on Government and An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Inspired by such figures as John Locke and Claude Adrien...
Preparatory Principles is not a linear text in the conventional sense, but consists of a series of short passages on a variety of topics, who...
In the mid-1780s Bentham drafted his first sustained discussions of political economy and public finance for Projet Matiere (itself part of Projet d'un corps de loix complet). Those discussions are now lost, but the corresponding marginal contents open this volume, followed by three closely related appendices. The volume continues with Defence of Usury, first published 1787, which was well received, quickly translated, and established some reputation for Bentham in political economy. In 1790, while preparing a second edition, Bentham drafted the raft of additional materials included here in...
In the mid-1780s Bentham drafted his first sustained discussions of political economy and public finance for Projet Matiere (itself part of Projet d'u...
