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Manuscripts
- Bentham Manuscripts at University College London (UC followed by
box and page/folio no.).
Collected Editions of Bentham’s Works
- 1829–30, Œuvres de
Jérémie Bentham, 3 volumes, E. Dumont
(ed.), Bruxelles: Hauman.
- 1838–43, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Published under
the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring, 11 vols.,
Edinburgh: William Tait.
- 1952–54, Jeremy Bentham’s Economic Writings,
3 volumes, W. Stark (ed.), London: George Allen & Unwin. (Scholar)
- 1968–, The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham,
General Editors: J. H. Burns, J. R. Dinwiddy, F. Rosen, T. P.
Schofield, London: Athlone Press; Oxford: Clarendon Press; and London:
UCL Press, in progress:
- 1970, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and
Legislation, J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (eds.). (Scholar)
- 1977, A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on
Government, J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (eds.).
- 1983, Chrestomathia, M. J. Smith and W. H. Burston
(eds.).
- 1983a, Deontology together with A Table of the Springs of
Action and the Article on Utilitarianism, A. Goldworth
(ed.).
- 1983b, Constitutional Code, volume 1, F. Rosen and J. H.
Burns (eds.).
- 1989, First Principles Preparatory to Constitutional
Code, T. P. Schofield (ed.).
- 1990, Securities Against Misrule and other Constitutional
Writings for Tripoli and Greece, T. P. Schofield (ed.).
- 1993, Official Aptitude Maximized; Expense Minimized, P.
Schofield (ed.).
- 1995, Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law: Rid
Yourselves of Ultramaria and other writings on Spain and Spanish
America, P. Schofield (ed.)
- 1998,“Legislator of the World”: Writings on
Codification, Law, and Education, P. Schofield and J. Harris
(ed.). (Scholar)
- 1999, Political Tactics, M. James, C. Blamires and C.
Pease-Watkin (eds.).
- 2001, 2010a, Writings on the Poor Laws, 2 volumes, M.
Quinn (ed.).
- 2002, Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense upon Stilts
and other Writings on the French Revolution, P. Schofield, C.
Pease-Watkin and C. Blamires (eds.).
- 2010b, Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of
Jurisprudence, ed. P. Schofield.
- 2011, Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined, J.
E. Crimmins and C. Fuller (eds.).
- 2012, On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, and
other Legal and Political Writings for Spain and Portugal, C.
Pease-Watkin and P. Schofield (eds.).
- 2013,
“Not Paul, But Jesus Part III. Doctrine”,
Bentham Project.
- 2014, Of Sexual Irregularities, and other writings on Sexual
Morality, P. Schofield, C. Pease-Watkin, and M. Quinn
(eds.).
- 2015, The Book of Fallacies, P. Schofield (ed.).
- 2016a, 2019, Writings on Political Economy, Volume 1:
including “Defence of Usury”; “Manual of Political
Economy”; and “Protest against Law Taxes”), and
Volumes 2: including “Supply without Burthen” and
“Proposals Relative to Divers Modes of Supply”, M. Quinn
(ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- 2016b, Preparatory Principles, D. G. Long and P.
Schofield (eds.).
- 2022, Panopticon versus New South Wales and Other Writings on
Australia, T. Causer and P. Schofield (eds.).
Other Cited Works by Bentham
- 1795, “Nonsense upon Stilts, Or Pandora’s Box Opened,
Or The French Declaration of Rights prefixed to the Constitution of
1791 laid open and exposed–with a Comparative Sketch of what has
been done on the same subject in the Constitution of 1795”, in
Collected Works, 2002, 317–401. (Scholar)
- 1830–31, “History of the War between Jeremy Bentham
and George the Third. By one of the Belligerents”, in The
Works of Jeremy Bentham, 1838–43, XI, 96–105. (Scholar)
- 1831, “Colonization Company Proposal: Being a proposal for
the formation of a joint-stock company by the name of the Colonization
Company on the entirely new principle intituled the
vicinity-maximizing or dispersion-preventing principle”, in
Collected Works, 2022, forthcoming. (Scholar)
- 1840 [2nd edn 1864], Theory of Legislation; by Jeremy Bentham.
Translated from the French of Etienne Dumont, by Richard
Hildreth, 2 vols., rept. with an introduction, appendix and index
by James E. Crimmins, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. (Scholar)
- 1842, Auto-Icon; or Farther Uses of the Dead to the
Living; in James E. Crimmins (ed.), Jeremy Bentham’s
Auto-Icon and Related Writings, Bristol: Thoemmes, 2002. (Scholar)
Other Primary Sources
- Carlyle, T., 1840, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in
History, M.K. Goldberg, J.J. Brattin, and M. Engel (eds.),
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. (Scholar)
- Edgeworth, F. Y., 1881, Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. (Scholar)
- Hazlitt, W., 1826, “The New School of Reform: A Dialogue
between a Rationalist and a Sentimentalist”, in The Complete
Works of William Hazlitt, 21 vols., P. P. Howe (ed.), London:
J.M. Dent and Sons, 1930–4, vol. 12, pp. 179–95. (Scholar)
- Jevons, W. S., 1871, The Theory of Political Economy,
London: Macmillan and Co. (Scholar)
- Mill, J. S., 1963–91, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, J. M. Robson (general editor), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
- Neal, J., 1830, Principles of Legislation: From the Ms. of
Jeremy Bentham; … By M. Dumont …; With
Notes and a Biographical Notice of Jeremy Bentham and of M.
Dumont, Boston, MA: Wells and Lilly. (Scholar)
- Smith, T. S., 1832, Lecture Delivered over the Remains of
Jeremy Bentham, Esq., in the Webb-Street School of Anatomy &
Medicine, on the 9th June, 1832, London: Effingham
Wilson. (Scholar)
- Armitage, D., 2011, “Globalizing Jeremy Bentham”, History of Political Thought, 32 (1): 63–82. (Scholar)
- Avila-Martel, A. de, 1981, “The Influence of Bentham on the
Teaching of Penal Law in Chile”, The Bentham
Newsletter, 5: 22–8. (Scholar)
- Bahmueller, C. F., 1981, The National Charity Company: Jeremy
Bentham’s Silent Revolution, Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press. (Scholar)
- Bedau, H. A., 1983, “Bentham’s Utilitarian Critique of
the Death Penalty”, Journal of Criminal Law and
Criminology, 74 (3): 1033–65. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, “Bentham’s Theory of
Punishment: Origin and Content”, Journal of Bentham
Studies, 7: n.p.
[Bedau 2004 available online]. (Scholar)
- Ben-Dor, O., 2000, Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere, Oxford & Portland, OR: Hart Publishing. (Scholar)
- Blamires, C., 2008, The French Revolution and the Creation of
Benthamism, London: Palgrave. (Scholar)
- Boralevi, L. C., 1984, Bentham and the Oppressed, Berlin:
W. de Gruyter. (Scholar)
- Brunon-Ernst, A. (ed.), 2012, Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon, Farnham: Ashgate. (Scholar)
- Bykvist, K., 2010, Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed, London: Continuum. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Preferences
(Preferentialism),” in J.E. Crimmins (ed.), Bloomsbury
Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, London & New York:
Bloomsbury; reprinted 2017, pp. 440–45. (Scholar)
- Cain, P. J., 2011, “Bentham and the Development of the British Critique of Colonialism”, Utilitas, 23 (1): 1–24. (Scholar)
- Causer, T., M. Finn and P. Schofield (eds.), 2022, Bentham and
Australia: Convicts, Utility and Empire, London: University
College London Press. (Scholar)
- Champs, E. de., 2015, Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in
French, Bentham in France, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. (Scholar)
- Crimmins, J. E., 1987, “‘Strictures on Paley’s
Net’: Capital Punishment and the Power to Pardon”, The
Bentham Newsletter, 11: 23–34. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, Secular Utilitarianism: Social science and the critique of religion in the thought of Jeremy Bentham, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, “Bentham’s Political
Radicalism Reexamined”, Journal of the History of
Ideas, 55 (2): 259–81. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, On Bentham, Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, “Principles of Utilitarian
Penal Law in Beccaria, Bentham and Mill”, in P. K. Koritansky
(ed.), The Philosophy of Punishment and the History of Political
Thought, Columbia: The University of Missouri Press, pp.
136–71. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, Utilitarian Philosophy and
Politics: Bentham’s Later Years, London & New York:
Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, Utilitarianism in the Early
American Republic, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Dabhoiwala, F., 2010, “Lust and Liberty”, Past
& Present, 207 (1): 89–179. (Scholar)
- Dewey, J. and J. H. Tufts, 1908, Ethics, in John Dewey: The Middle Works, 1899–1924 (Volume 5), Jo Ann Boydson (ed.), Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978. (Scholar)
- Dewey, J., 1935, Liberalism and Social Action, in
John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925–1953 (Volume 11:
1935–1937), Jo Ann Boydston (ed.), Carbondale and Edwardsville,
IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. (Scholar)
- Dinwiddy, J. R., 1975, “Bentham’s Transition to
Political Radicalism, 1809–10”, Journal of the History
of Ideas, 36 (4): 683–700. (Scholar)
- –––, 1984, “Bentham and the Early
Nineteenth Century”, The Bentham Newsletter, 8:
15–33. (Scholar)
- –––, 1989a, “Adjudication under
Bentham’s Pannomion”, Utilitas, 1 (2):
283–9. (Scholar)
- –––, 1989b, Bentham. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Draper, T., 2002, “An Introduction to Jeremy Bentham’s
Theory of Punishment”, Journal of Bentham Studies, 5:
n.p.
[Draper 2002 available online]
(Scholar)
- Engelmann, S., 2001, “Imagining Interest,” Utilitas, 13 (3): 289–322 (Scholar)
- Foucault, M., 1985, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the
Prison, A. Sheridan (trans.), Harmondsworth: Penguin. (Scholar)
- Halévy, E., 1901–4, The Growth of Philosophic
Radicalism [La Formation du radicalisme philosophique,
new edition, M. Morris (trans.), 1928; Clifton, NJ: Augustus M. Kelley
1972. (Scholar)
- Harrison, R., 1983, Bentham, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
- Hart, H. L. A., 1982, Essays on Bentham: Studies on Jurisprudence and Political Theory, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
- Hume, L. J., 1981, Bentham and Bureaucracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Itzkin, E. S., 1978, “Bentham’s
Chrestomathia: Utilitarian Legacy to English
Education”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 39 (2):
303–16. (Scholar)
- Jacques, S., and P. Schofield (eds.), 2021, Jeremy Bentham on
Police: The Unknown Story and What it Means for Criminology,
London: University College London Press. (Scholar)
- James, W., 1891, “The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life”, in The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy, New York: Dover Publications, 1956. (Scholar)
- Jones, H. S., 2005, “The Early Utilitarians, Race, and
Empire: The State of the Argument”, in B. Schultz and G.
Varouxakis, eds., Utilitarianism and Empire, Lanham, MD:
Lexington Books, pp. 179–88. (Scholar)
- Julius, A., Quinn, M., and P. Schofield (eds.), 2020, Bentham
and the Arts, London: UCL Press. (Scholar)
- Kelly, P. J., 1989, “Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: The Civil Law and the Foundations of Bentham’s Economic Thought”, Utilitas, 1 (1): 62–81. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
- Lieberman, D., 2008, “Bentham’s Democracy”,
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 28 (3): 605–26. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, “Bentham on
Codification”, in S. G. Engelmann (ed.), Selected Writings:
Jeremy Bentham, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp.
460–77. (Scholar)
- Lively, J., and J. C. Rees, eds., 1978, Utilitarian Logic and
Politics: James Mill’s “Essay on Government”,
Macaulay’s critique and the ensuing debate. Oxford:
Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- Long, D. G., 1977, Bentham on Liberty: Jeremy Bentham’s Idea of Liberty in Relation to his Utilitarianism, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
- Luño, A-E P., 1981, “Jeremy Bentham and Legal
Education in the University of Salamanca during the Nineteenth
Century”, The Bentham Newsletter, 5: 44–54. (Scholar)
- Mack, M. P., 1955, “The Fabians and Utilitarianism”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 16 (1): 76–88. (Scholar)
- MacKennan, T. L., 1981, “Benthamism in Santander’s
Colombia”, The Bentham Newsletter, 5: 29–43. (Scholar)
- Nozick, R., 1974, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
- Peonidis, F., 2009, “Bentham and the Greek Revolution: New
evidence”, Journal of Bentham Studies, 11: n.p.
[Peonidis 2009 available online]
(Scholar)
- Pitts, J., 2005, “Jeremy Bentham: Legislator to the
World?” in B. Schultz and G. Varouxakis, eds.,
Utilitarianism and Empire, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp.
57–92. (Scholar)
- Postema, G. J., 1989, Bentham and the Common Law
Tradition, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, “Bentham’s
Equality-Sensitive Utilitarianism”, Utilitas, 10 (2):
144–58. (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, “The Soul of Justice: Bentham on Publicity, Law, and the Rule of Law”, in Z. Xiabo and M. Quinn, eds., Bentham’s Theory of Law and Public Opinion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 40–62. (Scholar)
- Quinn, M., 2008, “A Failure to Reconcile the Irreconcilable?
Security, Subsistence and Equality in Bentham’s Writings on the
Civil Code and on the Poor Laws”, History of Political
Thought, 29 (2): 320–43. (Scholar)
- –––, 2012, “Which comes first,
Bentham’s chicken of utility, or his egg of truth?”
Journal of Bentham Studies, 14:
Quinn 2008 published online. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, Bentham, Cambridge: Polity Press. (Scholar)
- Rawls, J., 1971, A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Resnik, J., 2011, “Bring back Bentham: ‘open
courts,’ ‘terror trials,’ and public
sphere(s)”, Law, Ethics, Human Rights, 5 (1):
1–69. (Scholar)
- Richardson, R., 1986, “Bentham and Bodies for
Dissection”, The Bentham Newsletter, 10:
22–33. (Scholar)
- Rosen, F., 1983, Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy:
A Study of “The Constitutional Code”, Oxford:
Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill, London & New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, “Jeremy Bentham on Slavery and
the Slave Trade”, in B. Schultz and G. Varouxakis (eds.),
Utilitarianism and Empire, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp.
31–56. (Scholar)
- Rosenblum, N., 1978, Bentham’s Theory of the Modern
State, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Schofield, P., 1996, “Bentham on the Identification of Interests”, Utilitas, 8 (2): 223–34. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, Utility & Democracy: The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009, Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed, London: Continuum. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “The Legal and Political Legacy
of Jeremy Bentham”, Annual Review of Law and Social
Science, 9: 51–70. (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, “Jeremy Bentham on Taste, Sex and Religion”, in Z. Xiabo and M. Quinn, eds., Bentham’s Theory of Law and Public Opinion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 90–118. (Scholar)
- Semple, J., 1993, Bentham’s Prison: A Study of the
Panopticon Penitentiary, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- Sokol, M., 2011, Bentham on Sex and Marriage: Law and Utility
in Historical Context, London: Continuum. (Scholar)
- Stephen, L., 1902, The English Utilitarians, 3 vols., New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. (Scholar)
- Ten, C. L., 1987, Crime, Guilt, and Punishment: A Philosophical Introduction, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Twining, W. L., 1985, Theories of Evidence: Bentham and Wigmore, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. (Scholar)
- Thomas, W., 1979, The Philosophic Radicals: Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817–1841, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- Wallas, G., 1926, “Bentham as Political Inventor”,
Contemporary Review, 129: 308–19. (Scholar)
- Warke, T., 2000, “Multi-Dimensional Utility and the Index Number Problem: Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, and Qualitative Hedonism”, Utilitas, 12 (2): 176–203. (Scholar)
- Zhai, X., and S. Palmer (eds.), 2021, Bentham Around the World, Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing. (Scholar)