BENTHAM, JEREMY

born Feb. 15, 1748, London died June 6, 1832, London English philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist, the earliest and chief expounder of Utilitarianism. Additional reading J.H. Burns (gen. ed.), The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham (1968 ); Leslie Stephen, The English Utilitarians, vol. 1 (1900, reprinted 1968), still one of the best general accounts of Bentham's life and thought; Elie Halevy, La Formation du radicalisme philosophique, 3 vol. (190104; The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism, 1928), a study of Bentham's philosophy seen in the context of the history of English thought in his time. Later works on Bentham's thought and philosophy include Herbert L.A. Hart, Essays on Bentham (1982); Frederick Rosen, Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy (1983); Lea Campos-Boralevi, Bentham and the Oppressed (1984); and Ross Harrison, Bentham (1983).