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- 9780262535496
- Book Title
- Radical Fool of Capitalism : on Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon
- Item Length
- 7in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Philosophy, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Economy, History & Theory, General, Movements / Utilitarianism
- Item Width
- 4.5in
- Item Weight
- 6.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his "radical foolery" embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Panopticon, the circular prison house in which all prisoners could be seen by an unseen observer-later seized upon by Michel Foucault as the apotheosis of the neoliberal control society. In this volume in the Untimely Meditation series, Christian Welzbacher offers a new interpretation of Bentham, arguing that his "radical foolery" (paraphrasing Goethe's characterization of Bentham) actually embodied a social ethics that was new for its time and demands proper historical contextualization rather than retroactive analysis from the vantage point of late capitalism. Welzbacher provides just such an analysis, offering an account of the two great utilitarian projects that occupied Bentham all his life- the Panopticon and the Auto-Icon. Welzbacher rescues the Panopticon from the misapprehensions of Foucault, Orwell, and Lacan, arguing that Bentham saw the Panopticon as a pedagogical instrument incorporating the tenets of reason; construction and function, plan and influence, architecture and politics are brought into alignment. Bentham extolled the discovery in words that could easily be ascribed to Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, or any other modernist architect. The Auto-Icon expressed Bentham's theories that the dead should benefit later generations; these theories were effectively sealed when Bentham decided to have his body preserved and put on display. (It can be seen today in a cabinet at University College London.) He also donated his inner organs to science-a practice outlawed at the time-and posthumously stage-managed his own ceremonial autopsy. Welzbacher reveals a Bentham who raised questions that feel familiar and current, invoking topoi that would come to define the modern era and that reverberate to this day.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262535491
ISBN-13
9780262535496
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239762178
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Book Title
Radical Fool of Capitalism : on Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political Economy, History & Theory, General, Movements / Utilitarianism
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
4.5in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
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Series Volume Number
10
Lc Classification Number
B1574.B34w4513 2018
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-047695
Dewey Decimal
192
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Untimely Meditations Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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