TY  - BOOK
ED  - L. S. Sprigge, Timothy
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.14324/111.9781911576037
ID  - OAPEN ID: 630683
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030816863
KW  - philosophy
KW  - jeremy bentham
KW  - utilitarianism
KW  - legal thought
KW  - London
KW  - Postmark
KW  - Samuel Bentham
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ad4d96b9-cb96-4f9c-a8a6-0f1c45a97628/630683.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31358
PB  - UCL Press
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781911576051
SN  - 9781911576044
SN  - 9781911576068
SN  - 9781911576075
SN  - 9781911576082
TI  - The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1null
ER  - 
