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dc.contributor.editorL. S. Sprigge, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-01 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-11 13:45:08
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:32:29Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:32:29Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier630683
dc.identifierOCN: 1030816863en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31358
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DND Diaries, letters and journalsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thoughten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophyen_US
dc.subject.otherphilosophy
dc.subject.otherjeremy bentham
dc.subject.otherutilitarianism
dc.subject.otherlegal thought
dc.subject.otherLondon
dc.subject.otherPostmark
dc.subject.otherSamuel Bentham
dc.titleThe Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/111.9781911576037
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydf73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2
oapen.relation.isbn9781911576051
oapen.relation.isbn9781911576044
oapen.relation.isbn9781911576068
oapen.relation.isbn9781911576075
oapen.relation.isbn9781911576082
oapen.pages432
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Jeremy Bentham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham; London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London; Postmark - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmark; Samuel Bentham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bentham
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