1st Edition
Jeremy Bentham
Critical Assessments
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Book Description
Bentham scholarship has concentrated on certain aspects of his thought: this collection reflects that bias. Most of the articles are published since 1950, but those of his contemporaries show how his ideas became politically influential. This is an important new contribtion that will be of great use to scholars with an interest in this key thinker.
Table of Contents
Thematically arranged contents:
Volume I Life, Influence and Perspectives on his Thought
Volume II 1. Philosophy, Psychology and Religion; 2. Ethics
Volume III 1. Law; 2. Politics
Volume IV 1. Economics; 2. Panopticon, Feminism and other topics
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Biography
Bhikhu Parekh is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull. He is the author of Bentham's Political Thought (1974).