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ISUS 2016 ‘Utilitarianism and Institutional Design’ 6-8 July 2016
The 14th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS XIV) will be held on 6, 7 and 8 July 2016 at Lille Catholic University, France. It will be preceded by a Summer School workshop for Masters and PhD students on 4 and 5 July.
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Parution d’un Dossier sur Bentham dans les Archives de Philosophie
Dossier
E. de Champs : « Utilitarisme et liberté. La pensée politique de Jeremy Bentham »
J. P. Cléro : « Le calcul benthamien des plaisirs et des peines. Calcul introuvable ou seulement indéfiniment différé? »
A. Guillot : « La question du peuple dans la philosophie de J. Bentham »
E. de Champs : « Religion, politique et utilité chez Jeremy Bentham »
P. Niesen : « Parole, vérité et liberté de Jeremy Bentham à John Stuart Mill »
A. Brunon-Ernst : « Le gouvernement des normes. Jeremy Bentham et les instruments de régulation postmoderne »
A. Hatzenberger : « Correspondance diplomatique de J.J. Rousseau. L’initiation à l’art politique dans les Dépêches de Venise«
Compte rendus
Bulletin Hobbes XXVII
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Parution de Enlightenment and Utility d’Emmanuelle de Champs, Cambridge University Press, 2015
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 Examining previously unpublished sources, she traces the circulation of Bentham’s letters, friends, manuscripts, and books in the French-speaking world.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. [Publisher’s website]
