Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
（International library of essays in the history of social and political thought）
Ashgate, c2007
Available at 18 libraries
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Facsimile reprint of collected articles
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Jeremy Bentham's (1748-1832) writings in social and political thought were both theoretical and practical. As a theorist, he made important contributions to the modern understanding of the principle of utility, to ideas of sovereignty, liberty and justice and to the importance of radical reform in a representative democracy. As a reformer, his ideas regarding constitutionalism, revolution, individual liberty and the extent of government have not only played an important role in eighteenth and nineteenth century debates but also, together with his theoretical work, remain relevant to similar debates today. This volume includes essays from leading Bentham scholars plus an introduction, surveying recent scholarship, by Frederick Rosen, formerly Director of the Bentham Project and Professor Emeritus of the History of Political Thought, University College London.
Table of Contents
- The Utilitarian Tradition: Douglas G. Long (1990), "utility" and the "utility principle": Hume, Smith, Bentham, Mill
- Frederick Rosen (2003), Reading Hume backwards, utility as the foundation of morals
- Ross Harrison (1983), The clew to the labyrinth. liberty and justice: Douglas G. Long, fundamental words
- Gerald J. Postema (1986), Utilitarian justice and the tasks of law
- P.J. Kelly (1990), Security, expectation, and liberty
- Frederick Rosen (1992), Liberty and constitutional theory. sovereignty and the state: H.L.A. Hart (1967), Bentham on sovereignty
- J.H. Burns (1973), Bentham on sovereignty: an exploration
- Frederick Rosen (1983), Sovereignty and democracy. Polity and Economy: P.J. Kelly (1989), Utilitarianism and distributive justice: the civil law and the foundations of Bentham's economic thought
- David Lieberman (2000), Economy and polity in Bentham's science of legislation
- Takuo Dome (2004), Jeremy Bentham. Society: Janet Semple (1992), Foucault and Bentham: a defence of Panopticism
- Roy Porter (1994), rethinking institutions in late Georgian England
- Michael Quinn (1994), Jeremy Bentham on the relief of indigence: an exercise in applied philosophy
- Lea Campos Boralevi (1987), Utilitarianism and feminism
- Louis Crompton (1985), "Not Paul but Jesus". Radicalism: J.H. Burns (1966), Bentham and the French Revolution
- J.R. Dinwiddy (1975), Bentham's transition to political radicalism, 1809-10
- J. Crimmins (1994), Bentham's political radicalism re-examined
- Philip Schofield (2004), Jeremy Bentham, the French Revolution and political radicalism. Revolution in Government: S.E. Finer (1972), The transmission of Benthamite ideas, 1820-1850
- L.J. Hume (1967), Jeremy Bentham and the nineteenth-century revolution in government
- Stephen Conway (1990), Bentham and the nineteenth-century revolution in government
- Index.
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