Böcker i Routledge Library Editions: Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century-serien

In this book, first published in 1973, the editor has drawn heavily on Bentham¿s manuscripts and has tried to provide a coherent statement of Bentham¿s legal and political thought. Unlike Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes or Mill, Bentham did not write one single work containing the basic principles of his legal and political philosophy. This titles presents Bentham¿s work in a systematic manner, and will be of interest to students of philosophy, politics and history.

The intention of this collection of essays, first published in 1971, is to explore the political aspects of some nineteenth century English writers. Under the influence of the great revolutionary upheavals of the period almost all its most important writers were involved, explicitly or otherwise, in political ideas. This is an exploratory volume, and will be of absorbing interest to anyone studying the interaction between literature and ideas in the nineteenth century.