The Bentham Brothers and Russia The Imperial Russian Constitution and the St Petersburg Panopticon

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Tác giả: Roger Bartlett

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN: 111.9781800082373

ISBN-13: 978-1800082380

ISBN-13: 978-1800082397

ISBN-13: 978-1800082403

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Thông tin xuất bản: London : UCL Press, 2022

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (322 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 343574

 The jurist and philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, and his lesser-known brother, Samuel, equally talented but as a naval architect, engineer and inventor, had a long love affair with Russia. Jeremy hoped to assist Empress Catherine II with her legislative projects. Samuel went to St Petersburg to seek his fortune in 1780 and came back with the rank of Brigadier-General and the idea, famously publicised by Jeremy, of the Inspection-House or Panopticon. The Bentham Brothers and Russia chronicles the brothers' later involvement with the Russian Empire, when Jeremy focused his legislative hopes on Catherine's grandson Emperor Alexander I (ruled 1801-25) and Samuel found a unique opportunity in 1806 to build a Panopticon in St Petersburg - the only panoptical building ever built by the Benthams themselves. Setting the Benthams' projects within an in-depth portrayal of the Russian context, Roger Bartlett illuminates an important facet of their later careers and offers insight into their world view and way of thought. He also contributes towards the history of legal codification in Russia, which reached a significant peak in 1830, and towards the demythologising of the Panopticon, made notorious by Michel Foucault: the St Petersburg building, still relatively unknown, is described here in detail on the basis of archival sources. The Benthams' interactions with Russia under Alexander I constituted a remarkable episode in Anglo-Russian relations
  this book fills a significant gap in their history.
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