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oapen-20.500.12657-313572022-08-26T12:09:24Z The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4 Taylor Milne, Alexander philosophy jeremy bentham utilitarianism legal thought Bowood House France London Panopticon Paris bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BJ Diaries, letters & journals bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCD Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPQ Ethics & moral philosophy 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 in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. 2017-05-01 23:55:55 2019-01-11 13:45:08 2020-04-01T13:32:26Z 2020-04-01T13:32:26Z 2017 book 630684 OCN: 1030817578 9781911576150 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31357 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 630684.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-correspondence-of-jeremy-bentham-volume-four UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781911576150 10.14324/111.9781911576150 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781911576150 554 open access
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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 in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century.
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