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The work Panopticon: The Inspection House was a work written by Jeremy Bentham, and first published in 1791, which famously outlines the notion of the institutional panopticon, which allows for the prison or manufactory, for instance, to view all inmates or workers from a central... Read Full Overview

The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's... Read Full Overview

"Panopticon" from Jeremy Bentham. British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748-1832).

Panopticon: Or The Inspection House is a book written by Jeremy Bentham in 1791. The book describes a prison design called the Panopticon, which is a circular building with a central tower that allows guards to observe all inmates without being seen themselves. Bentham believed... Read Full Overview

Panopticon: Or The Inspection House is a book written by Jeremy Bentham in 1791. The book is a proposal for a new type of prison that Bentham called the Panopticon. The Panopticon is a circular building with cells around the outside and a central tower in the middle. The tower... Read Full Overview

Le Panoptique est une oeuvre majeure de la pens e politique. Il est le fondement et le guide pratique de la d rive totalitaire des d mocraties occidentales. On parle ici de surveillance des individus jusque dans leur vie la plus intime, de contr le de la pens e pour un moindre... Read Full Overview

Panopticon: Or The Inspection House is a book written by the famous philosopher and social reformer, Jeremy Bentham, in 1791. The book presents Bentham's idea for a new type of prison, the Panopticon, which was designed to be a revolutionary model for social control. The Panopticon... Read Full Overview

Panopticon: Or The Inspection House is a book written by Jeremy Bentham and published in 1791. The book describes a theoretical prison design known as the Panopticon, which consists of a circular building with a central watchtower that allows a single observer to monitor all... Read Full Overview

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo- American philosophy of law. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism, for the concept of animal rights and his... Read Full Overview