The Radical Fool of Capitalism: On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon
(Part of the Untimely Meditations Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262535491
ISBN13:9780262535496
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 4.6" x 7.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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