The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 8, 9780198226154
Hardcover
The letters in this volume cover the rejection of Bentham’s Panoptican penitientiary scheme, as well as his efforts to secure its implementation and then to gain adequate compensation. They provide information on the production of works on law, politics, religion, and education, and give an insight …

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 8

january 1809 to december 1816

$446.07

  • Hardcover

    628 pages

  • Release Date

    12 May 1988

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Summary

This is the eighth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly three-quarters of the letters included in this eighth volume of Correspondence have not been previously published. During the years covered by this volume, Bentham’s Panopticon penitentiary scheme was finally rejected by the government; and his efforts to secure its implementation, and then to gain adequate compensation,form a major and recurring theme. But the letters…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198226154
ISBN-10:0198226152
Series:The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
Author:Jeremy Bentham, Stephen Conway, F. Rosen
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:628
Release Date:12 May 1988
Weight:1.14kg
Dimensions:241mm x 161mm x 38mm
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Critics Review

‘All those professionally interested in Bentham and his period will be grateful to Stephen Conway,a most worthy successor to the scholars who have edited earlier volumes, forthe range and detail of the notes and the exceptionally fine standard of editing evident in the text, which is virtually error-free’Utilitas Vol 1 No 1 1989

About The Author

Jeremy Bentham

Stephen Conway is a Research Fellow at University College London.

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