J H Burns

Biographic Data

ID1060983
NAMEJ H Burns
GIVEN NAMESJ H
FAMILY NAMEBurns
SIGNATUREBURNS J H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS42
WORKS AS AUTHOR44
WORKS AS EDITOR6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1789
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX4

  • From a Good Scheme to a Better’

    Open AccessJ H Burns, James BurnsARTICLEUtilitas2012

    Bentham was convinced throughout his adult life that law reform in both theory and practice was his vocation. As a deliberately briefless barrister he set out in the early 1770s to establish jurisprudence on the principle of utility. From the first, however, he was repeatedly diverted from this central task. Confronted by the authority of Blackstone, he wrote, without completing, his Comment on the Commentaries , and turned within that context to…

  • Jacques-Pierre Brissot

    J H Burns, James BurnsARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2012

    The career of Jacques-Pierre Brissot (1754–1793) featured two phases, separated dramatically by the Revolution of 1789. Before the revolutionary crisis and the subsequent political struggle that was to cost him his life, Brissot was an avocet who never practised but sought instead a career as a writer—and indeed as a philosophe, seeing himself as an ally of Diderot. The improbability of such an alliance was not lessened by his early and continuin…

  • John MacVicar and the Economy of Nature

    J H BurnsARTICLEIntellectual History Review2009

    John Gibson MacVicar (1800–84) published Elements of the Economy of Nature when he was just 30 – an over‐ambitious work (as he himself soon realised). Much of his long life was devoted to attempts

  • Scottish Kantians

    Open AccessJ H BurnsARTICLEJournal of Scottish Philosophy2009References: 1

    From the late 1790s to the early 1890s, Scottish scholars contributed, as translators, commentators, or critics to the ‘reception’ of Kant's philosophy in Britain. The discussion here considers particularly the work of Richardson, Semple, Gillies, MacVicar, Ferrier, Meiklejohn, and Hastie, and attempts to assess the character, quality, and value of their contributions to Kantian scholarship. An important question throughout is whether – and if so…

  • Bentham, Brissot and the challenge of revolution

    J H Burns, James BurnsARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2009

    Jeremy Bentham came to know Jacques-Pierre Brissot when he was in London between midwinter 1782–3 and summer 1784. They shared some opinions: Brissot indeed saw Bentham to some extent as his mentor. There was never complete accord, however; and Brissot's increasingly radical political views were not at that stage shared by Bentham. In any case, their ways parted with Bentham's prolonged sojourn with his brother in Russia between 1785 and 1788. It…

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham

    Jeremy Bentham, J H Burns et al.EDITORBOOKA comment on the Commentaries and…2008

  • John Fleming and the geological deluge

    Open AccessJ H Burns, James BurnsARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2007

    John Fleming (1785–1857), later professor in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, made his combative contribution to natural history between 1812 and 1832. As an Edinburgh student he had followed Robert Jameson's ‘Wernerian’ lead. His earliest publications, from 1813, expressed what was to be a lifelong hostility to the work of James Hutton. Yet his own thinking moved increasingly towards a ‘uniformitarian’ as opposed to a ‘catastrophist’ view of earth histor…

  • Happiness and Utility

    Open AccessJ H BurnsARTICLEUtilitas2005Cited by: 8

    Doubts about the origin of Bentham's formula, ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’, were resolved by Robert Shackleton thirty years ago. Uncertainty has persisted on at least two points. (1) Why did the phrase largely disappear from Bentham's writing for three or four decades after its appearance in 1776? (2) Is it correct to argue (with David Lyons in 1973) that Bentham's principle is to be differentially interpreted as having sometim…

  • James Headrick, Robert Jameson, and the Edinburgh Review

    Open AccessJ H Burns, James BurnsARTICLEScottish historical review/ The…2005References: 1

  • Dai margini la memoria

    J H BurnsARTICLEThe English Historical Review2004

    Journal Article Dai margini la memoria: Johannes Hinderbach ( 1418–1486) Get access J.H. Burns J.H. Burns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 483, September 2004, Pages 1043–1044, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.483.1043 Published: 01 September 2004

  • Il merito e la frusta

    J H BurnsARTICLEThe English Historical Review2004

    Journal Article Il merito e la frusta: Assistenza, disciplina e mobilità sociale nel pensioro politico inglese del Settecento Get access J. H. Burns J. H. Burns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 480, February 2004, Page 218, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.218 Published: 01 February 2004

  • Twilight of the Enlightenment

    Open AccessJ H BurnsARTICLEScottish historical review/ The…2002Cited by: 3

    James Headrick was one of those who have been aptly termed 'foot-soldiers of the Enlightenment'.1 He did, to be sure, have aspira tions beyond serving in the 'poor bloody infantry'. If he did not cherish the delusion that a field-marshal's baton was ready in his knapsack, he certainly had his eye on commissioned rank in the forces of intellectual progress. To end his days as a parish minister in Angus, remembered as 'an excellent man, [who] disch…

  • Edward Eyre andEuropean Civilization

    J H BurnsARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2002

    Keywords: Edward EyreEuropean historiographyRoman CatholicismApologeticPublishing history

  • Biopics And Politics

    J H Burns, James BurnsARTICLEBiography2000

    In 1997 the British Broadcasting Corporation screened a six hour dramatization of the life of the South African imperialist Cecil Rhodes. Titled simply Rhodes, the film was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions ever undertaken by the BBC, costing over £15 million and relying on support from American, Canadian, and South African public television. The final script was reportedly reviewed and approved by the Prime Ministers of South A…

  • Conciliarism and Papalism

    Open AccessTommaso de Vio of Gaeta, Jacques Almain et al.EDITORBOOKConciliarism and Papalism1997

    Almost on the eve of the sixteenth-century Reformation, the long-running debate over the respective authority of popes and councils in the Catholic Church was vigorously resumed. In this collection the editors bring together the first English translation of four major contributions to that debate. In these texts, complex arguments derived from Scripture, theology, and canon law are deployed. The issues that emerge, however, prove to have a broade…

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham

    Jeremy Bentham, J H Burns et al.EDITORBOOKAn introduction to the principles…1996

  • John M. Robson 1927–1995

    Open AccessJ H BurnsARTICLEUtilitas1996

    By the death, last summer, of Jack Robson, the world of utilitarian studies and a wider world of scholarship on both sides of the Atlantic (and indeed of the Pacific too) lost one of their most distinguished figures. It would not be appropriate here, even if it were possible now, to attempt a full and measured assessment of his work. Writing only a few months after the news of his death, while the sense of loss is still so sharp for all his many …

  • Nature and Natural Authority in Bentham

    Open AccessJ H BurnsARTICLEUtilitas1993Cited by: 2References: 2

    My object in this paper is to suggest a few reflections on some themes in Bentham's work which others as well as (and even more than) I have noted, without perhaps developing them as fully as might with advantage be done. There will be nothing like full development in the limited compass of what is said here, but what is said may at least indicate possible directions for further exploration. The greater part of the paper will be concerned with th…

  • Lordship, Kingship, and Empire

    J H BurnsBOOKLordship, kingship, and empire1992

    "This is a study of the ideology of monarchy in late medieval Europe. In the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, European monarchies faced a series of crises and conflicts, which gave rise to intense debate as to the nature and authority of monarchy in its various forms. From such debates and polemics emerged many of the ideas that were to sustain the later confrontation between 'absolutism' and 'constitutionalism'." "In this book J. H. Burn…

  • The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700.

    Mark Hulliung, J H BurnsARTICLEThe American Historical Review1992

  • The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c. 350-c. 1450

    Arthur Stephen Mcgrade, J H BurnsARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1992

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Constitutional Code, Vol. 1

    Jeremy Bentham, F Rosen et al.EDITORBOOKConstitutional code1991

  • The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450–1700

    J H Burns, Mark GoldieBOOKThe Cambridge history of…1991References: 17

    Introduction J. H. BURNS PART I. RENAISSANCE AND COUNTER-RENAISSANCE: 1. Humanism and political theory ANTHONY GRAFTON 2. Italian political thought, 1450-1530 NICOLAI RUBINSTEIN 3. Law DONALD R. KELLEY 4. Transalpine humanism BRENDAN BRADSHAW 5. Scholasticism: survival and revival J. H. BURNS PART II. RELIGION, CIVIL GOVERNMENT, AND THE DEBATE ON CONSTITUTIONS: 6. Christian obedience and authority, 1520-50 FRANCIS OAKLEY 7. Calvinism and resistan…

  • The Idea of Absolutism

    J H BurnsCHAPTERAbsolutism in Seventeenth-Century…1990

    The term 'absolutism' entered the language of politics — in French — during the decade after the Revolution in 1789. Its first appearance in English came more than a generation later, in the radical and liberal literature of the years around 1830. The system or concept to which the term referred was of course much older; and there is a sense in which its emergence may be located in the period with which this book is concerned. It was with absolut…

  • John Ireland

    Open AccessJ H BurnsARTICLEThe Innes Review1990