Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2 (eBook)

1777 to 1780

Jeremy Bentham (Autor)

Timothy L. S. Sprigge (Herausgeber)

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2017
UCL Press (Verlag)
978-1-911576-30-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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.

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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. The early letters deal with Bentham's education at Oxford University, where he was sent at the age of 12 and graduated at the age of 16, and his legal training before being admitted to the bar at the age of 21. He soon afterwards turned his back on the practice of the law and, allying himself with the more radical and sceptical figures of the continental Enlightenment, embarked on a career of law reform.Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significantcontributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, 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 educational ideas were the inspiration for the founding of UCL. The vast majority of Bentham's papers, consisting of around 60,000 folios, are held in UCL Library. Bentham's correspondence reveals that in the late 1770s he was working intensively on the development of a code of penal law, but also expanding his acquaintance and, to a moderate degree, enhancing his reputation as a legal thinker. A significant family event took place in 1779, when his brother Samuel went to Russia in order to make his fortune.Praise for the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, volumes 1-5'These volumes provide significant additions to our understanding of Bentham's work in the first half of his life up to 1797. The insights they offer into Bentham's activities, ideas and method cast light on his philosophical and political positions in a seminal period in British and European history.'British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Autor

lt;p>Timothy L.S. Sprigge (1932–2007), philosopher, having completed his PhD under the supervision of A.J. Ayer, was in 1963 appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, where he remained until 1979 when appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor J.H. Burns (1921–2012), historian, Reader in the History of Political Thought 1961–6 and Professor in the History of Political Thought 1966–86 in the Department of History, University College London, was in 1961 appointed as the first General Editor of the authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, a post he held until 1978.

Inhalt

List of Letters in Volume 2

Key to Symbols and Abbreviations

THE CORRESPONDENCE 1777–80

Index

The editor’s Preface and Introduction
to Volumes 1 and 2 of The Correspondence
appear in Volume 1.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
• Reihe/Serie: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
• Reihe/Serie: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
• Reihe/Serie: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
• Reihe/Serie: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
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• Schlagworte: American Revolution • Bentham • Bentham, correspondence, letters, diaries, American Revolution, French Revolution, penal code, legal thought, legal ideas, philosophy, Benthamite utilitarianism, utilitarianism, legal reform, legal thought • Benthamite utilitarianism • Correspondence • Diaries • French Revolution • Law • legal ideas • Legal reform • legal thought • Letters • Literature • Penal Code • Philosophy • Utilitarianism
• ISBN-10: 1-911576-30-5 / 1911576305
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911576-30-3 / 9781911576303