Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 6 - January 1798 to December 1801

Much of Bentham's correspondence of this period is concerned with his persistent but eventually unsuccessful efforts to secure the implementation of his Panopticon penitentiary scheme. The letters also throw light on his work in other fields, especially public finance and the reform of the police.

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Much of Bentham's correspondence of this period is concerned with his persistent but eventually unsuccessful efforts to secure the implementation of his Panopticon penitentiary scheme. The letters also throw light on his work in other fields, especially public finance and the reform of the police.

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These letters provide interesting insights into Bentham's activities at this critical juncture in his career, and since approximately eighty percnet of the letters are published for the first time, Dinwiddy's volume will be invaluable to future Bentham students.

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• Authors: Jeremy Bentham
• Assisted by: J R Dinwiddy (Editor), J. R. Dinwiddy (Editor), John R Dinwiddy (Editor), John R. Dinwiddy (Editor), Dinwiddy J. R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.1984
• EAN: 9780198226130
• ISBN: 978-0-19-822613-0
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham; Collected Works of Jeremy Bent; The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham; Collected Works of Jeremy Bent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy