Bentham, torture, modernity
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 20253228 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Justin Clemens (0000-0002-5752-4978, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia) |
| Editores | Knox Peden (0000-0002-9821-1310), Glenn Roe (0000-0002-5611-7916) |
| Año | 2017 |
| Volumen | 4 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 1390913 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Cogent Arts and Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2331-1983 • E-ISSN: 2331-1983 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23311983.2017.1390913 |
| OpenAlex | W2766896863 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 38 |
In this essay, I examine the relatively little-known and commented-upon writings of Jeremy Bentham regarding the potentially beneficial uses of torture in a utilitarian frame. If, following Michel Foucault’s extraordinarily influential work on Bentham’s panopticism, the motifs of governmental surveillance, practical intervention into mass behaviours, and institutional diagrams have become some of the crucial themes of sociological and historical studies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these themes do not quite touch—for a number of reasons discussed below—the new sense that Bentham gives to torture. Moreover, Bentham does so precisely because his reasoning regarding the development of the panopticon reveals a certain limit to that dispositif, a limit at which its own logic is threatened; Bentham, accordingly, retreats that limit according to an ingenious reapplication of his utilitarian logic. In reconstructing Bentham’s singular dialectic of panopticism/torture, this essay proposes that it has further fundamental historical effects, necessarily complicating received aspects of “modernity”, embedding the discussion of Bentham in our own post-9/11 context
Dialectic · Epistemology · Human rights · Jeremy bentham · Modernity · Panopticon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Torture · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · Torture, Ethics, and Law
Torture and Truth
Why Not Torture Terrorists?
Discipline and Punish
"Anarchical Fallacies"
The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel
Torture and Systems Theory
Torture and Democracy
Bentham's Prison
Torture and the Law of Proof
Torture A Collection
Transnational Torture
Torture and Dignity
The Absolute Violation
The Subject of Torture
The Prohibition of Torture in Exceptional Circumstances
The Torture Papers
The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel
Foucault, Michel . Abnormal
Is absolute secularity conceivable
The Utilitarian Justification of Torture
Jeremy Bentham's ‘Nonsense upon Stilts’
Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality
A Note on Psychoanalysis and the Crime of Torture
Heterologies
Discipline and Punish
The Magician, the Witch, and the Law
Truth and Juridical Forms
The Fall and Rise of Torture
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 0,33 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |