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The French Revolution and the creation of Benthamism

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The French Revolution and the creation of BenthamismCyprian Blamires.
Author:	Blamires, Cyprian.
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	xii, 442 p.
Subject:	Political scienceHistory18th century.France
Subject:	FranceIntellectual life19th century.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230227729

The French Revolution and the creation of Benthamism
Blamires, Cyprian.

The French Revolution and the creation of Benthamism[electronic resource] /Cyprian Blamires. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xii, 442 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-424) and index.

Utilitarianism and Panopticism : the umbilical cord -- Panopticon dominates Bentham's existence -- The creator of the Bentham brand : (1) Dumont the Genevan -- The creator of the Bentham brand : (2) Dumont in the French Revolution -- The creator of the Bentham brand : (3) first steps in marketing -- Dumont's goodbye to revolution, 1791-1793 -- Theoryof legislation (1) : the gestation of theTraitâes, 1793-1802 -- Theory of legislation (2) : the message of the Traitâes -- The impact of theTraitâes : Benthamism goes global.

The prevailing view of the English reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) is that he was essentially a moral philosopher and jurist with a penchant for indulging in occasional extravagant and rather mysterious practical projects such as the Panopticon. This book argues that such a view represents a misunderstanding based to a considerable extent on the one-sided view of Bentham presented by his greatest promoter, Etienne Dumont (1759-1829). Dumont's abstracts of Bentham manuscripts publishedin French in 1802 had a huge influence in the English-speaking world through the translation of partof them under the title Theory of Legislation - the classic presentation of Benthamism. Dumont's ownparticular agenda, forged in his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, prevented him however from taking an interest in the b1 sother b2 s Bentham presented here for the first time: the entrepreneurial figure who sought in Panopticon to embody, not the Orwellian nightmare of state intrusiveness so often assumed, but the cherished modern values of transparency, accountability and economyin public institutions.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230227729

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230227729doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

474239
Political science
--History--France--18th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

388979
France
--Intellectual life--19th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JA84.F8 / B53 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 144/.6

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