Download or read book The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 4 written by Jeremy Bentham and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. In 1789 Bentham published An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, which remains his most famous work, but which had little impact at the time, followed in 1791 by The Panopticon: or, The Inspection-House, in which he proposed the building of a circular penitentiary house. Bentham’s correspondence unfolds against the backdrop of the increasingly violent French Revolution, and shows his initial sympathy for France turning into hostility. On a personal level, in 1791 his brother Samuel returned from Russia, and in 1792 he inherited his father’s house in Queen’s Square Place, Westminster together with a significant property portfolio.
Download or read book Treasury Officials 1660 1870 written by and published by London : Athlone Press [for] University of London, Institute of Historical Research. This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essay on Political Tactics written by Jeremy Bentham and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lettres dating from May to July 1789 du Comte de Mirabeau ses Commettans pendant la tenue de la premi re L gislature written by Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti “de” Mirabeau and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Correspondence Volume 7 written by Jeremy Bentham and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1988-05-12 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the seventh volume of Bentham's Correspondence, and nearly three-quarters of the letters included in it have not been published before. In 1802 Bentham started to acquire an international reputation through the publication of his Traités de législation civile et pénale. The correspondence contains information about the numerous last-minute revisions which Bentham suggested, about early reactions to the work, and about its translation into Russian. When, in 1802 - 3, Bentham failed in his attempt to get his Panopticon penitentiary project implemented by the government, he turned his attention to adjective law, writing extensively about evidence and procedure, and in 1808 he published a substantial pamphlet on the reform of the Scottish judicature. Exchanges of letters with Sir Samuel Romilly, Francis Horner and others throw some light on the composition of these works and also illuminate aspects of his personal life: his relationships with his brother Samuel, with his Genevan editor Etienne Dumont, with Lord Holland's sister Caroline Fox, to whom he proposed marriage in 1805, and with Aaron Burr, adventurer and former vice-president of the United States, who formed a close friendship with him in 1808.
Download or read book Lettres du comte de Mirabeau a ses commettans pendant la tenue des tats g n raux de 1789 et suivantes written by Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de Mirabeau and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: