The Radical Fool of Capitalism: On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon

by Christian Welzbacher

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262535491
• ISBN13: 9780262535496
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher