On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon
by
Christian Welzbacher
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
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...