# Selected Writings - Paperback

by **Jeremy Bentham** (Author), **Stephen G. Engelmann** (Editor)

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), philosopher and reformer, is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age. This introduction to his writings presents a representative selection of texts authoritatively restored by the Bentham Project, University College London. As well as more familiar pieces on utility, law, and politics/policy, highlights include the succinct essay "On Retrenchment" and a never-before-published treatise on sex. The volume is completed by major interpretative essays by Mark Canuel, David Lieberman, Jennifer Pitts, and Philip Schofield.

The texts included in the book are:

\-Sex

\-An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and

Legislation, Preface and Chapters 1-5

\-Place and Time

\-Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to

English Practice, Book 1, Chapter 1

\-Constitutional Code Rationale, Chapters 1 and 2

\-Pannomial Fragments

\-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 Sieyes)

\-On Retrenchment

### Author Biography

**Stephen Engelmann** is associate professor of political science, University of Illinois, Chicago.

**Number of Pages:** 562

**Dimensions:** 1.44 x 8.31 x 6.64 IN

**Publication Date:** January 01, 2011

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