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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence: Volume 8
Jeremy Bentham
其他書名
January 1809 to December 1816
出版
Clarendon Press
, 1968
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Modern / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Political
Political Science / History & Theory
Social Science / Penology
ISBN
0198226152
9780198226154
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zSHXAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This is the eighth volume of the Correspondence produced in the new edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly three-quarters of the letters included in this eighth volume of Correspondence have not been previously published. During the years covered by this volume, Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary scheme was finally rejected by the government; and his efforts to secure its implementation, and then to gain adequate compensation, form a major and recurring theme. But the letters do much more than complete the Panopticon saga. They give an insight into Bentham's relations with his editors and followers Étienne Dumont and James Mill, and provide information on the writing, editing, and in some cases, printing and publishing of works on law, politics, religion, and education. Just as important is the clear impression the correspondence gives of his contacts, especially with the legal and political reformers of the day. Prior to these new volumes, the only edition of Bentham's works was a poorly edited and incomplete one brought out within a decade or so of his death.