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Bentham: A Fragment on Government
Jeremy Bentham
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Description for Bentham: A Fragment on Government
Paperback. The authoritative 1977 edition of A Fragment on Government prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected works. Editor(s): Harrison, Ross. Series Editor(s): Geuss, Raymond; Skinner, Quentin. Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
This volume makes available to a student readership one of the central texts in the utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected works. A Fragment on Government is, as Ross Harrison observes in his introduction, a young man's work, and Bentham's exuberant prose reflects his own confidence that the Fragment 'was the first publication by which men at large were invited to break loose from the trammels of authority and ancestor-wisdom on the field of law'. Certain that history was on his side, Bentham sought to rid the world ... Read more
This volume makes available to a student readership one of the central texts in the utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected works. A Fragment on Government is, as Ross Harrison observes in his introduction, a young man's work, and Bentham's exuberant prose reflects his own confidence that the Fragment 'was the first publication by which men at large were invited to break loose from the trammels of authority and ancestor-wisdom on the field of law'. Certain that history was on his side, Bentham sought to rid the world ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521359290
SKU
V9780521359290
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