Michael Quinn is an Honorary Research Fellow at Philipps University Marburg and Justus Liebig University Gießen. He was previously Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project at University College London.

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter1: Life and Logic: what matters, and why?

Chapter 2: The principle of utility: raising the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and law

Chapter 3: Direct Legislation: Bentham and Penal Law

Chapter 4: Indirect Legislation

Chapter 5: Civil Law and Political Economy

Chapter 6: Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (I): Panoptic Architecture and Management

Chapter 7: Principals, Agents and Institutional Design (II): The Prevention of Misrule

Chapter 8: International Law, the world next door

Chapter 9: Jeremy Bentham: why bother?

Notes

'Jeremy Bentham was a tireless schemer and policy-designer, a control freak and life-long exposer of corruption and misrule. Michael Quinn's masterful volume explains how Bentham's liberating and oppressive ideas all flow from the same principles.'
Peter Niesen, University of Hamburg

'This book is an excellent one-stop source for all things Bentham. Quinn's command of the philosopher's vast corpus is extraordinary. Through a series of lucid and engaging chapters he contributes a new reading of Bentham as a pragmatic and supremely relevant theorist of governmental reason.'
Stephen Engelmann, University of Illinois at Chicago