The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham

The Bentham Committee was established as a National Committee of University College London in 1959 in order to oversee a new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Editorial work was assigned to the Bentham Project, which is now an academic unit in UCL’s Faculty of Laws. In the ‘General Preface’, which appeared at the beginning of the first volume of the Correspondence (see p. ix below), the Committee estimated that the edition would run to 38 volumes. The basic division in the edition was between Bentham’s correspondence and his works. The initial focus was rightly placed on the correspondence, on the grounds that ‘understanding of [Bentham’s] life and personality has at times been distorted by lack of access to the essential biographical data contained in his letters’. The Bentham Committee took the sensible decision to publish letters both to and from Bentham.
[Londres: 2017]

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