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Author Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832, author.

Uniform Title Correspondence. Selections
Title The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Volume 1, 1752-76 / edited by Timothy L.S. Sprigge.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xlvi, 383 pages)
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Series Collected works of Jeremy Bentham
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832. Works. 1968.
Note Series editor, J.H. Burns.
Originally published in 1968 by the Athlone Press.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 23, 2017).
Contents Preface to the New Edition of Volume 1 -- List of Letters in Volume 1 -- Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2 -- THE CORRESPONDENCE 1752-76.
Summary The first five volumes of theCorrespondence of Jeremy Benthamcontain 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. Bentham's early life is marked by his extraordinary precociousness, but also family tragedy: by the age of 10 he had lost five infant siblings and his mother. The letters in this volume document his difficult relationship with his father and his increasing attachment to his surviving younger brother Samuel, his education, his interest in chemistry and botany, and his committing himself to a life of philosophy and legal reform.
Language English.
Subject Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 -- Correspondence.
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgCMwrcGjHrdRD387hPwC
Philosophers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
Philosophes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Correspondance.
Diaries, letters & journals.
Philosophy.
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
Philosophers
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Genre/Form letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Added Author Sprigge, T. L. S. (Timothy Lauro Squire), 1932-2007, editor.
Burns, J. H. (James Henderson), editor.
Note Available from some providers with title: Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Volume 1, 1752 to 1776
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