Schofield, P;
(2018)
The 'Least Repulsive' work on a 'Repulsive Subject': Jeremy Bentham on William Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England'.
In: Page, A and Prest, W, (eds.)
Blackstone and his critics.
(pp. 23-40).
Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
Bentham’s engagement with Blackstone, in the words of J.H. Burns, constituted ‘a lifetime’s dialectic’. In his first major published work A Fragment on Government (1776), Bentham took seven pages of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England for his target, criticized Blackstone’s views on the social contract, the natural law, and sovereignty, and complained of his ‘antipathy to reformation’. In 1828 Bentham composed what appears to be his final riposte to Blackstone in a largely unknown work entitled ‘Blackstone familiarized’. This chapter investigates whether, and if so in what ways, Bentham’s attitude to Blackstone had changed in the intervening 60 years.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The 'Least Repulsive' work on a 'Repulsive Subject': Jeremy Bentham on William Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England' |
| ISBN: | 150991045X |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1509910458 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/blacksto... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, Jurisprudence, Utilitarianism |
| 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/10043557 |
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