Selected writings / Jeremy Bentham ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen G. Engelmann ; with essays by Philip Schofield ... [et al.].

Author/creator Bentham, Jeremy
Other author Engelmann, Stephen G., 1961-
Other author Schofield, Philip, 1958-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press,
Descriptionxi, 548 p. ; 21 cm.
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Uniform titleWorks. Selections. 2011
SeriesRethinking the Western tradition
Rethinking the Western tradition. ^A331601
Contents Texts. I. Pleasure and liberty. Sex / ed. Philip Schofield ; II. Fundamentals of jurisprudence. An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation, preface and chapters 1-5 ; Place and time / ed. Philip Schofield and Stephen G. Engelmann ; Rational of judicial evidence, specially applied to English practice, book 1, chapter 1 ; Constitutional code rationale, chapters 1 and 2 ; Pannomial fragments ; III. Politics, policy and political economy. 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 observations on Sieyès ) ; On retrenchment -- Essays. Jeremy Bentham, the principle of utility, and legal positivism / Philip Schofield -- Bentham on codification / David Lieberman -- "Great and distant crimes": empire in Bentham's thought / Jennifer Pitts ; Bentham, utility, and romantic imagination / Mark Canuel.
General noteIncludes index.
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LCCN 2010017111
ISBN9780300112375 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0300112378 (pbk. : alk. paper)