Utility and Democracy - The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham

Zusatztext Professor Schofield's volume spans Bentham's notoriously long and full writing career, giving a vivid account of the work of young projector and old Radical alike. Anyone who wants to know Bentham better (and we all have a lot yet to lear) should ready this book. Informationen zum Autor Philip Schofield joined the Bentham Project, based at University College London, in 1984. He joined the Faculty of Laws as a Lecturer in 1993, and was subsequently appointed to a Readership and then to a personal Chair in the History of Legal and Political Thought. He was appointed Joint General Editor, with Frederick Rosen, of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham in 1995, and has been sole General Editor since 2003. He has been Director of the Bentham Project since 2001.Winner: W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize Zusammenfassung In this first full historical account of the political thought of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), Philip Schofield shows how Bentham's insights in the fields of logic and language led to the first defence of democracy from a utilitarian perspective, and to the creation of the philosophic radicals, dedicated to political, legal, ecclesiastical, and social reform.

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• Authors: Philip Schofield, Philip (Professor of the History of Leg Schofield, Philip (Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought Schofield, Schofield Philip
• Assisted by: Prasannan Parthasarathi (Editor), Giorgio Riello (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2006
• EAN: 9780198208563
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820856-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Pasold Studies in Textile Hist; Pasold Studies in Textile Hist
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history