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An examination of Bentham's programme for the executive and judicial branches of government.

At the end of the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham devised a scheme for a prison that he called the panopticon. It soon became an obsession. For twenty years

Because of their scope, Bentham’s works deal with many major problems of political theory and practice. Because of the period of time they span, they are also

This volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism.