Utilitarians And Their Critics In America 1789-1914 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1843711109 ISBN 13: 9781843711100

Casa editrice: Thoemmes Pr, 2005

Riassunto

Utilitarian ideas in nineteenth-centuryAmerica have been given short shrift inmodern historical and philosophicalscholarship. Collecting the relevant publishedwork together in one place is an essentialstarting point for any serious investigation of American utilitarians andtheir critics. James Crimmins and Mark Spencer have made an expertselection from scattered sources of around 60 important articles andessays. These include treatments of Bentham by his friend John Neal,editor of The Yankee, and commentaries on John Stuart Mill gatheredfrom rare American journals. There are also discussions of utilitarianjurisprudence by the great American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, andpieces by many other writers. This collection, with its substantialeditorial introduction, will be vital reading for historians of ideas,scholars of philosophy and political thought, and any one elseinterested in the fate of utilitarianism in America.

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L'autore

James E. Crimmins is Professor of Political Theory at Huron University College, The University of Western Ontario. His books include Secular Utilitarianism (Oxford,Clarendon, 1990), On Bentham (Belmont, CA, Wadsworth, 2004), and with Catherine Fuller (ed.), Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined, The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2011).

Mark G. Spencer is Professor of History at Brock University and has published widely in the fields relating to American Enlightenment.

Product Description

Fine copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. In original publisher's cardboard box4 pages; Description: 4 vol. Set ; 22 cm. Subjects: Utilitarianism --United States --Historiography --Sources. Series: History of American thought

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• Editore: Thoemmes Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1843711109
• ISBN 13: 9781843711100
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 1280
• Redattore: Crimmins James E., Spencer Mark G.