Selected writings
By: Jeremy Bentham ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen G. Engelmann ; with essays by Philip Schofield ... [et al.].
Contributors: Engelmann, Stephen G., 1961-; Schofield, Philip, 1958-
Series: Rethinking the Western tradition; Rethinking the Western tradition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780300112375
Subjects: Philosophy
Work titles: Selections
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Essays. Jeremy Bentham, the principle of utility, and legal positivism / Philip Schofield; title: Bentham on codification / David Lieberman; title: "Great and distant crimes": empire in Bentham's thought / Jennifer Pitts ; Bentham, utility, and romantic imagination / Mark Canuel.