Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives. Edited by S. D. Chrostowska and James D. Ingram. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 376p. $105 cloth, $35 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592717003437
Abstract: formation to achieve Bentham’s ideal of happiness maximization. With Thompson making this move, Kaswan believes that Bentham’s bourgeois individualism is unmasked: together, they are read as precursors of Antonio Gramsci’s theory of capitalist hegemony. Subjective… read more here.
Keywords: political uses; happiness; thompson; bentham ... See more keywords
‘The invisible chain’: Jeremy Bentham and neo-liberalism
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2016.1251718
Abstract: ABSTRACT Bentham's thought cannot be reduced to the usual oppositions between ‘natural freedom’ and government interference. For Bentham, freedom in a political society is determined by the existence of a legal system that creates obligations… read more here.
Keywords: jeremy bentham; chain jeremy; bentham neo; invisible chain ... See more keywords
Transparency: from Bentham’s inventory of virtuous effects to contemporary evidence-based scepticism
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DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2015.1092656
Abstract: There is growing enthusiasm for transparency in public affairs. Discourses idealising the value of transparency are part of the rhetoric of advocates of ‘good governance’. However, there is little discussion of the justifications for transparency.… read more here.
Keywords: bentham inventory; bentham; transparency bentham; virtuous effects ... See more keywords