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The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 5, January 1794 to December 1797 / edited by Alexander Taylor Milne

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Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
Uniform Title
Correspondence. Selections
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January 1794 to December 1797
Published
London : UCL Press, 2017.
Edition
1st.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations
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Milne, Alexander Taylor
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Contents
Preface to the New Edition of Volume 5 -- List of Letters in Volume 5 -- A List of Missing Letters -- Key to Symbols and Abbreviations -- The Correspondence January 1794-December 1797.
Summary
The first five volumes of theCorrespondence of Jeremy Benthamcontain 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.
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9781911576242 (electronic bk.)
1911576240 (electronic bk.)
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9781911576266 (electronic bk.)
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1911576232
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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