Schofield, P (Ed).
(2017)
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 5.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
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. Bentham’s life in the mid-1790s was dominated by the panopticon, both as a prison and as a network of workhouses for the indigent. The letters in this volume document in excruciating detail Bentham’s attempt to build a panopticon prison in London, and the opposition he faced from local aristocratic landowners. His brother Samuel was appointed as Inspector-General of Naval Works and in September 1796 married Mary Sophia Fordyce.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 5 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781911576211 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781911576211 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781911576211 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Alexander Taylor Milne (ed.), The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol.5: January 1794 to December 1797. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Edited by J.R. Dinwiddy. London, UCL Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781911576211 Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism, Legal thought, Philosophy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws > The Bentham Project |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1558747 |
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