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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2015
      12 May 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316162439
      9781107098671
      9781107491595
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316162439
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 249 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 254 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (110)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (110)
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    Jeremy Bentham, the founder of classical utilitarianism, was a seminal figure in the history of modern political thought. This lively monograph presents the numerous French connections of an emblematic British thinker. Perhaps more than any other intellectual of his time, Bentham engaged with contemporary events and people in France, even writing in French in the 1780s. Placing Bentham's thought in the context of the French-language Enlightenment through to the post-Revolutionary era, Emmanuelle de Champs makes the case for a historical study of 'Global Bentham'. Examining previously unpublished sources, she traces the circulation of Bentham's letters, friends, manuscripts, and books in the French-speaking world. This study in transnational intellectual history reveals how utilitarianism, as a doctrine, was both the product of, and a contribution to, French-language political thought at a key time in European history. The debates surrounding utilitarianism in France cast new light on the making of modern Liberalism.

    Awards

    Winner, 2016 Prix de la Recherche, Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur/Association Française d'Études Américaines

    Reviews

    'An impressive addition to the Cambridge University Press ‘Ideas in Context’ series, Emmanuelle de Champs’ Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in French, Bentham in France gives us a Bentham who is both familiar and strange. This new French Bentham guides us through a transatlantic matrix of utilitarian liberal reform ideas that began in the eighteenth century, spanned the French Revolution and dissipated only in the mid-nineteenth century. Fluent and authoritative, de Champs’ narrative demonstrates the way in which historical contextualisation - which depends not only on erudition but on intelligent and imaginative judgements about how to construct a relevant context - can alter the landscape of scholarship both on well-mined figures in the history of political thought and on traditions of thought.'

    Cheryl B. Welch Source: French History

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