Jeremy Bentham

"Jeremy Bentham's (1748-1832) writings in social and political thought were both theoretical and practical. As a theorist, he made important contributions to the modern understanding of the principle of utility, to ideas of sovereignty, liberty and justice and to the importance of radical reform in a representative democracy. As a reformer, his ideas regarding constitutionalism, revolution, individual liberty and the extent of government have not only played an important role in eighteenth and nineteenth century debates but also, together with his theoretical work, remain relevant to similar debates today. This volume includes essays from leading Bentham scholars plus an introduction, surveying recent scholarship, by Frederick Rosen, formerly Director of the Bentham Project and Professor Emeritus of the History of Political Thought, University College London."--Provided by publisher Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Series Preface 12 Introduction 14 PART I THE UTILITARIAN TRADITION 24 1 “Utility” and the “Utility Principle”: Hume, Smith, Bentham, Mill 26 2 Reading Hume Backwards: Utility as the Foundation of Morals 54 3 The Clew to the Labyrinth 86 PART II LIBERTY AND JUSTICE 116 4 Fundamental Words 118 5 Utilitarian Justice and the Tasks of Law 139 6 Security, Expectation, and Liberty 184 7 Liberty and Constitutional Theory 218 PART III SOVEREIGNTY AND THE STATE 270 8 Bentham on Sovereignty 272 9 Bentham on Sovereignty: An Exploration 282 10 Sovereignty and Democracy 300 PART IV POLITY AND ECONOMY 314 11 Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: The Civil Law and theFoundations of Bentham’s Economic Thought 316 12 Economy and Polity in Bentham’s Science of Legislation 336 13 Jeremy Bentham 364 PART V SOCIETY 390 14 Foucault and Bentham: A Defence of Panopticism 392 15 Rethinking Institutions in Late Georgian England 408 16 Jeremy Bentham on the Relief of Indigence: An Exercise in Applied Philosophy 424 17 Utilitarianism and Feminism 440 18 ‘Not Paul but Jesus’ 460 PART VI THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND POLITICAL RADICALISM 494 19 Bentham and the French Revolution 496 20 Bentham’s Transition to Political Radicalism, 1809-10 516 21 Bentham’s Political Radicalism Reexamined 534 22 Jeremy Bentham, the French Revolution and Political Radicalism 558 PART VII REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT 580 23 The Transmission of Benthamite Ideas, 1820-1850 582 24 Jeremy Bentham and the Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government 604 25 Bentham and the Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government 620 Name Index 640