One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number'. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was th[...]

This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, UTILITARIANISM and ON LIBERTY, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his REMARKS ON BENTHAM'S PHILOSOPHY. The selection from Mill's A SYSTEM OF LOGIC is of special relevance to[...]

The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe. The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual d[...]

Definitive collection of Bentham's work on the model prison, key to Foucault's theory of power.

Jeremy Bentham (17481832) var en av de mest inflytelserika politiska filosoferna i Europa under 1800-talet och tillhör liberalismens klassiker. Under flera decennier arbetade han med att konstruera ett idealt fängelse, som han kallade panopticon, ett projekt som på senare tid blivit mycket uppmä[...]