Bentham's Theory of Law and Public Opinion
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Bentham's Theory of Law and Public Opinion

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This collection represents the latest research from leading scholars whose work has helped to frame our understanding of Bentham since the publication of H. L. A. Hart's Essays on Bentham. The authors explore fundamental areas of Bentham's thought, including the relationship between the rule of law and public opinion; law and popular prejudices or manipulated tastes; Bentham's methodology versus Hart's; sovereignty and codification; and the language of natural rights. Drawing on original manuscripts and volumes in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, the chapters combine philosophical and historical approaches and offer new and more faithful interpretations of Bentham's legal philosophy and its development. As a coherent whole, the book challenges the dominant understandings of Bentham among legal philosophers and rescues him from some famous mischaracterizations.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781139899185
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Jurisprudence
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Law’s Rule
  11. 3 The Soul of Justice
  12. 4 Popular Prejudices, Real Pains
  13. 5 Jeremy Bentham on Taste, Sex, and Religion
  14. 6 Bentham’s Jurisprudence and Democratic Theory
  15. 7 Bentham’s Natural Arrangement and the Collapse of the Expositor-Censor Distinction in the General Theory of Law
  16. 8 Utility, Morality, and Reform
  17. 9 A Defence of Jeremy Bentham’s Critique of Natural Rights
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index