TY - BOOK ED - Taylor Milne, Alexander 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 - 10.14324/111.9781911576150 ID - OAPEN ID: 630684 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030817578 KW - philosophy KW - jeremy bentham KW - utilitarianism KW - legal thought KW - Bowood House KW - France KW - London KW - Panopticon KW - Paris L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/158bd63b-7477-488a-a359-4dc7e9996adb/630684.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31357 PB - UCL Press PY - 2017 SN - 9781911576150 TI - The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4null ER -