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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958557303321

Autore

Bentham Jeremy <1748-1832.>

Titolo

Selected writings / / Jeremy Bentham ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen G. Engelmann ; with essays by Philip Schofield ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-300-16868-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (561 p.)

Collana

Rethinking the Western tradition

Altri autori (Persone)

EngelmannStephen G. <1961->

SchofieldPhilip <1958->

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Texts. I. Pleasure and liberty. Sex / ed. Philip Schofield ; II. Fundamentals of jurisprudence. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation, preface and chapters 1-5 ; Place and time / ed. Philip Schofield and Stephen G. Engelmann ; Rational of judicial evidence, specially applied to English practice, book 1, chapter 1 ; Constitutional code rationale, chapters 1 and 2 ; Pannomial fragments ; III. Politics, policy and political economy. Panopticon, or the inspection-house, letters 1, 2, and 6 ; Of publicity ; Manual of political economy, chapters 1 and 2 ; Nonsense upon stilts (excluding the observations on Sieyès ) ; On retrenchment -- Essays. Jeremy Bentham, the principle of utility, and legal positivism / Philip Schofield -- Bentham on codification / David Lieberman -- "Great and distant crimes": empire in Bentham's thought / Jennifer Pitts ; Bentham, utility, and romantic imagination / Mark Canuel.