香港六合彩

罢丑别听Bentham Project, in association with聽香港六合彩 History, has been awarded a grant of almost 拢500,000 by the聽聽for a new project entitled 鈥楥onvict Australia and Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham鈥檚聽Writings on Australia鈥�.

This grant will enable the project team to make Bentham鈥檚 published and unpublished writings on the subjects of convict transportation, colonialism, and imperialism available for the first time in an a complete and critical edition.

Writings on Australia, which will form a new volume in the聽The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, will contain three seminal texts:聽Panopticon versus New South Wales,听A Plea for the Constitution, and the hitherto unpublished聽Colonization Society Proposal. The volume will also contain a substantial, never-before published section of聽Panopticon versus New South Wales.

Writings on Australia聽will also consider material from surviving drafts of聽Panopticon versus New South Wales聽补苍诲听A Plea for the Constitution, which are often more radical and confrontational than the published versions, and investigate why Bentham chose to moderated his views in the final texts.

Commenting on the award, Director of the Bentham Project and General Editor of the聽Collected Works,听, said: 鈥淏entham is one of the world鈥檚 most important philosophers of punishment, and this important grant will contribute to a more complete understanding of his penal theory and the reasons for, and impact of, his intervention in debates on convict transportation.鈥�

This research will also help to shed more light on the failure of Bentham鈥檚 panopticon prison scheme, and the enduring importance of his critique of convict transportation to those campaigning for its abolition during the first half of the nineteenth century. It will also explore Bentham鈥檚 conversion to democracy and republicanism, the consistency of his opposition to colonialism, and his use of evidence in making his case against New South Wales.

Other outputs of the research programme will include an open-access version of聽Writings on Australia, and open-access online parallel editions of聽Panopticon versus New South Wales聽补苍诲听A Plea for the Constitution聽that display Bentham鈥檚 published texts alongside manuscript versions of the works.

The project team, which includes Professor Schofield,听Professor Margot Finn聽of 香港六合彩 History, 补苍诲听Dr Tim Causer, Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project, will also produce a series of interpretive articles and hold an international conference to explore topics relating to the research themes, which will be brought together in an edited collection of essays following the event.

Work on the project will begin on 1 January 2016 for a period of four years. Members of the public will also be invited to contribute by transcribing relevant manuscripts for the Bentham Project鈥檚 award-winning crowdsourced transcription initiative,听, which was also established under funding from the AHRC.