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Jul 23, 2015 · Bentham never saw a panopticon built during his lifetime. A number of prisons have since incorporated panopticon elements into their design but it wasn’t until the 1920s that the closest...
Panopticon, architectural form for a prison, the drawings for which were published by Jeremy Bentham in 1791. It consisted of a circular, glass-roofed, tanklike structure with cells along the external wall facing toward a central rotunda; guards stationed in the rotunda could keep all the inmates.
Mar 17, 2015 · It was in Russia, too, that Bentham took an idea of Samuel’s and developed it into the “panopticon”, the full dimensions of which he explained in Panopticon; Or, The Inspection House (1791). The panopticon is a building of circular design intended for any institutional arrangement where the “inmates” required constant supervision ...
Law, Liberty and Government. Rights. References and Further Reading. Bentham’s Works. Secondary Sources. 1. Life. A leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law and one of the founders of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham was born in Houndsditch, London on February 15, 1748.
20–41. Published: July 1993. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter discusses the family and personal background of Jeremy Bentham and the origins of the panopticon. Bentham was born in London, England in 1748 and was the eldest son of Alicia and Jeremiah.
For around a decade of his life until 1803, the renowned English philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) lobbied the British government to build a 'panopticon' prison of his design.
The panopticon is an architectural design for a prison proposed by the social theorist Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) in 1791 and was popularized by the poststructural philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–1984), who employed it as a metaphor for social control in a variety of modern institutions and practices.
