Author: Bhikhu C. ParekhPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415046503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Jeremy Bentham
Author: Bhikhu C. ParekhPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415046503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Journal of William H. Crawford
Author: William Harris CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Smith College Studies in History
Author: Studies in History
Author: Smith CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Author: Utilitarian Philosophy and Politics
Author: James E. CrimminsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441165037
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Exploring the life, work and ideas of the great 19th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, this study takes a unique look at his intellectual project from the point of view of the development of his political thought and later reassessment of his own ideas. Placing Bentham's work in its historical and intellectual context, Utilitarian Philosophy and Politics considers in particular Bentham's utilitarianism in relation to his later engagement with political and constitutional reform. James Crimmins argues that, despite being one of the most argued over philosophers of the 19th century, Bentham remains one of the most misunderstood of political philosophers. By attempting to look again at the context in which Bentham was writing and his self-conscious concern with his own legacy, this book offers a new account of this major political thinker.
Beyond Foucault
Author: Anne Brunon-ErnstPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317174763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, power is visibly exerted, for instance by the destruction of the body of the criminal, while in the latter power becomes invisible and focuses on the mind of the subject, in order to identify, marginalize, and 'treat' those who are regarded as incapable of participating in, or unwilling to submit to, the disciplines of production. The Panopticon links the worlds of Bentham and Foucault scholars yet they are often at cross-purposes; with Bentham scholars lamenting the ways in which Foucault is perceived to have misunderstood panopticon, and Foucauldians apparently unaware of the complexities of Bentham's thought. This book combines an appreciation of Bentham's broader project with an engagement of Foucault's insights on economic government to go beyond the received reading of panopticism as a dark disciplinary technology of power. Scholars here offer new ways of understanding the Panopticon projects through a wide variety of topics including Bentham's plural Panopticons and their elaboration of schemes of 'panoptic Utopia', the 'inverted Panopticon', 'panoptic governance', 'political panopticism' and 'legal panopticism'. French studies on the Panopticon are groundbreaking and this book brings this research to an English-speaking audience for the first time. It is essential reading, not only for those studying Bentham and Foucault, but also those with an interest in intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and those studying contemporary surveillance and society.
Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic
Author: James E. CrimminsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100047660X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E. Crimmins provides a fresh perspective on the history of antebellum American political thought. Based on a broad-ranging study of the dissemination and reception of utilitarian ideas in the areas of constitutional politics, law education, law reform, moral theory and political economy, Crimmins illustrates the complexities of the place of utilitarianism in the intellectual ferment of the times, in both its secular and religious forms, intersection with other doctrines, and practical outcomes. The pragmatic character of American political thought revealed—culminating in the postbellum rise of Pragmatism—stands in marked contrast to the conventional interpretations of intellectual history in this period. Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic will be of interest to academic specialists, and graduate and senior undergraduate students engaged in the history of political thought, moral philosophy and legal philosophy, particularly scholars with interests in utilitarianism, the trans-Atlantic transfer of ideas, the American political tradition and modern American intellectual history.
Systems of Ethics and Value Theory
Author: William S. Sahakian, Ph.DPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442234377
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
In the extensive study, Systems of Ethics and Value Theory, author William S. Sahakian deconstructs these two complex philosophical systems for a scholarly audience. He covers topics from self-realizationism to free will to dignity with careful analysis and reasoning. His astute contributions to the fields of ethics and value theory provide excellent introductions and open up readers' minds to the complex philosophical concepts and arguments.
Author: Élie Halévy