Jeremy Bentham

Registration is now open for 'Bentham and Australia: Convicts, Utility, and Empire', which will take place on 11-12 April 2019 at UCL Faculty of Laws.

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Bentham and Australia: Convicts, Utility, and Empire Hosted by the Bentham Project, UCL Faculty of Laws, in association with UCL History FULL PROGRAMME TO FOLLOW The philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was one of the most important contributors to debates surrounding the colonization of the Australian continent, in the first place as a...

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Pre-publication versions of two forthcoming volumes of 'The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham' are now available to download for free:

* Writings on Political Economy, vol. III: Preventive Police, edited by Michael Quinn

* Writings on Australia, edited by Tim Causer and Philip Schofield

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/2018/sep/jeremy-benthams-writings-police-and-australia-now-available-download

Jeremy Bentham’s writings on police and Australia now available to download Pre-publication versions of Bentham's work are now available for download.

Corpus as well as co**se...

The papers of our intellectual inspiration Jeremy Bentham have now been completely digitised!

Over 95,000 images from collections at UCL and the British Library have been captured, making the philosopher's works accessible around the world.

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1 May 2018 at Bentham House, UCL Faculty of Laws

A Bentham and the Arts seminar will be given by Professor Frances Ferguson (Chicago), who will give a paper entitled 'Jeremy Bentham's Expansive Aesthetics: Pushpin Too'.

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Bentham and the Arts seminar: Professor Frances Ferguson (Chicago) Professor Frances Ferguson (Chicago) Jeremy Bentham's Expansive Aesthetics: Pushpin Too When John Stuart Mill characterized Bentham as relentless in his pursuit of facts, Mill could not have known that literary scholars would later defend the value of poetry in part by pointing to—and protesting.....

In your city, maximizing your utility

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How Jeremy Bentham Finally Came to America, Nearly 200 Years After His Death The philosopher believed in making every man his own statue.

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UCL’s Jeremy Bentham joins exhibition in New York UCL’s Jeremy Bentham joins exhibition in New York 14 February 2018 UCL has mounted a meticulously-planned operation to enable its spiritual forebear Jeremy Bentham to achieve in death what he always wanted to do in life: visit America. For the first time since the philosopher’s death more than 1...