Happiness, Democracy, and the Cooperative Movement: The Radical Utilitarianism of William Thompson

Mark J. Kaswan

Published by SUNY Press 2014

Happiness, Democracy, and the Cooperative Movement

The Radical Utilitarianism of William Thompson

Mark J. Kaswan

In the series SUNY series in New Political Science

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438452050

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About this book

Examines the political significance of ideas about happiness through the work of utilitarian philosophers William Thompson and Jeremy Bentham.

Author / Editor information

Mark J. Kaswan is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Brownsville and J. Robert Beyster and Michael W. Huber Fellow, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.

Reviews

"This is an original and impressive piece of scholarship that calls attention to an important but neglected figure (Thompson) and provides an innovative and timely reading of his work. In the author's hands, applied theory is given new life and new purpose." — Stephen Engelmann, editor of Selected Writings: Jeremy Bentham

"In this remarkable book, Mark Kaswan rescues and rehabilitates the reputation of a long-forgotten and unjustly neglected thinker—the radical Irishman, feminist, non-Benthamite Utilitarian, and a writer of remarkable range and power—William Thompson. In Kaswan, Thompson has finally found the expositor he so richly deserves. And we might in turn find in Thompson a vision of democratic possibilities that we so sorely need." — Terence Ball, author of Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
What is Happiness?
The Two Faces of Happiness: A Brief History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Between Pleasure and Well-being: Bentham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
William Thompson’s Social Happiness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
The Politics of Happiness
Happiness and Utility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
The Politics of Happiness and Democratic Principles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
From Theory to Practice Cooperatives, Happiness, and Democratic Social Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Laws and Objects of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, adopted 1844 (abridged) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
International Co-operative Alliance Statement on the Co-operative Identity, adopted 1995 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

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Language: English
Publisher: SUNY Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 319
Illustrations
- Other: Total Illustrations: 0
Keywords: Sociology : Social Movements; History : History; Politics and Law : Political Economy; Politics and Law : Political Theory; Politics and Law : Democracy

eBook

Published: May 19, 2014
ISBN: 9781438452050