Selected Writings (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

ISBN: 0300112378

Author: Bentham, Jeremy

Condition: New

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), philosopher and reformer, is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age. This introduction to his writings presents a representative selection of texts authoritatively restored by the Bentham Project, University College London. As well as more familiar pieces on utility, law, and politics/policy, highlights include the succinct essay On Retrenchment and a never-before-published treatise on sex. The volume is completed by major interpretative essays by Mark Canuel, David Lieberman, Jennifer Pitts, and Philip Schofield.The texts included in the book are:-Sex-An Introduction to the Principles of Morals andLegislation, Preface and Chapters 1-5-Place and Time-Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied toEnglish Practice, Book 1, Chapter 1-Constitutional Code Rationale, Chapters 1 and 2-Pannomial Fragments-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 Observationson Sieyes)-On Retrenchment

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