Panopticon Postscript

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10059222

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Panopticon: Postscript by Jeremy Bentham Pdf

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789600131

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The Panopticon Writings by Jeremy Bentham Pdf

The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham's Panopticon. The Panopticon is not merely, as Foucault thought, "a cruel, ingenious cage", in which subjects collaborate in their own subjection, but much more-constructing the Panopticon produces not only a prison, but also a god within it. The Panopticon is a machine which on assembly is already inhabited by a ghost. It is through the Panopticon and the closely related theory of fictions that Bentham has made his greatest impact on modern thought; above all, on the theory of power. The Panopticon writings are frequently cited, rarely read. This edition contains the complete "Panopticon Letters", together with selections from "Panopticon Postscript I" and "Fragment on Ontology", Bentham's fullest account of fictions. A comprehensive introduction by Miran Bozovic explores the place of Panopticon in contemporary theoretical debate.

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Culture
ISBN : 0415278627

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Jacques Lacan by Slavoj Žižek Pdf

Jacques Lacan (1901-1980) is undoubtedly the central figure of psychoanalysis in the second half of the 20th century. The texts selected here present the entire scope of the Lacan debate.

Author : Janet Semple
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191590818

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Bentham's Prison : A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary by Janet Semple Pdf

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 he tried to build it; in the end he failed, but the story of his attempt offers fascinating insights into both Bentham's complex character and the ideas of the period. Basing her analysis on hitherto unexamined manuscripts, Janet Semple chronicles Bentham's dealings with the politicians as he tried to put his plans into practice. She assesses the panopticon in the context of penal philosophy and eighteenth-century punishment and discusses it as an instrument of the modern technology of subjection as revealed and analysed by Foucault. Her entertainingly written study is full of drama: at times it is hilariously funny, at others it approaches tragedy. It illuminates a subject of immense historical importance and which is particularly relevant to modern controversies about penal policy.

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1065908292

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Panopticon: Postscript by Jeremy Bentham Pdf

Author : Jeremy Bentham,John Bowring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : UOM:39015070582849

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The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham,John Bowring Pdf

Author : Miran Bozovic
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472111404

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An Utterly Dark Spot by Miran Bozovic Pdf

Two concepts of special interest to contemporary theorists--the gaze and the body--approached in a fresh and fascinating way

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021370150

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Panopticon by Jeremy Bentham Pdf

The first part of Jeremy Bentham's posthumously published 'Panopticon Postscript' offers additional details and revisions to the architectural plan he initially proposed for a centralized prison. Bentham's innovative design centered around the principle of constant surveillance, making it a crucial text for scholars and historians studying the history of penitentiaries and criminal justice in the Western world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Chris Riley,Philip Schofield,Tim Causer
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781800086104

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The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13 by Chris Riley,Philip Schofield,Tim Causer Pdf

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13 contains authoritative and fully annotated texts of all known and publishable letters sent both to and from Bentham between 1 July 1828 and his death on 6 June 1832. In addition to 474 letters, the volume contains three memorandums concerning Bentham’s health shortly before this death, his Last Will and Testament, and extracts from both the Autobiography and the manuscript diaries of Bentham’s nephew George. Of the letters that have already been published, most are drawn from the edition of The Works of Jeremy Bentham, prepared under the superintendence of Bentham’s literary executor John Bowring. A small number of letters have been reproduced from newspapers and periodicals. This volume publishes for the first time all the extant correspondence between Bentham and Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Liberator. Other new acquaintances included Charles Sinclair Cullen, barrister and law reformer, and John Tyrrell, the Real Property Commissioner. Throughout the period, Bentham maintained regular contact with old friends and connections, but he also entered into sporadic correspondence with such leading figures in government as the Duke of Wellington, Robert Peel and Henry Brougham. Further afield, Bentham corresponded, amongst others, with the Marquis de La Fayette in France, Edward Livingston in the United States of America and José Del Valle in Guatemala.

Author : JEREMY. BENTHAM
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1385209933

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Panopticon by JEREMY. BENTHAM Pdf

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N011217 London: printed for T. Payne, 1791. [4],240p., table; 8°

Author : C. Blamires
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230227729

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The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism by C. Blamires Pdf

The first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of 'Benthamism' and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who visualised a new world based on the values of transparency, accountability, and economy.

Author : Jeremy Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135016739

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Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature by Jeremy Davies Pdf

Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period. This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Jails
ISBN : BSB:BSB10059223

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Panopticon Postscript by Jeremy Bentham Pdf

Author : Christian Welzbacher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262347143

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The Radical Fool of Capitalism by Christian Welzbacher Pdf

A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Panopticon, the circular prison house in which all prisoners could be seen by an unseen observer—later seized upon by Michel Foucault as the apotheosis of the neoliberal control society. In this volume in the Untimely Meditation series, Christian Welzbacher offers a new interpretation of Bentham, arguing that his “radical foolery” (paraphrasing Goethe's characterization of Bentham) actually embodied a social ethics that was new for its time and demands proper historical contextualization rather than retroactive analysis from the vantage point of late capitalism. Welzbacher provides just such an analysis, offering an account of the two great utilitarian projects that occupied Bentham all his life: the Panopticon and the Auto-Icon. Welzbacher rescues the Panopticon from the misapprehensions of Foucault, Orwell, and Lacan, arguing that Bentham saw the Panopticon as a pedagogical instrument incorporating the tenets of reason; construction and function, plan and influence, architecture and politics are brought into alignment. Bentham extolled the discovery in words that could easily be ascribed to Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, or any other modernist architect. The Auto-Icon expressed Bentham's theories that the dead should benefit later generations; these theories were effectively sealed when Bentham decided to have his body preserved and put on display. (It can be seen today in a cabinet at University College London.) He also donated his inner organs to science—a practice outlawed at the time—and posthumously stage-managed his own ceremonial autopsy. Welzbacher reveals a Bentham who raised questions that feel familiar and current, invoking topoi that would come to define the modern era and that reverberate to this day.

Author : Alex Howard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030534721

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Larkin’s Travelling Spirit by Alex Howard Pdf

This book examines Larkin’s evocation of place and space, along with the opportunities for self-discovery offered by the act and thought of travel. From his canonical verse to his lesser-known juvenilia and dream diaries, this title unveils a new Larkin; a man whose religious, political and ontological affiliations are often as wide-ranging and experimental as the very form and symbolic licence used to express them. Whether exploring Larkin’s fondness for deictics (‘pointing’ words, like here/there), his fascination with death, or his interest in the sexual opportunities of an itinerant lifestyle, this monograph provides fresh critical approaches bound to appeal to established Larkin scholars and newcomers alike.