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Only those who have made a study of Bentham’s Correspondence can fully appreciate the intensity of his involvement with the Panopticon scheme and the sheer fervour of his desire personally to establish and operate a Panopticon establishment. In order to convey the power of this here, I will retell the story of this undertaking from its origins in Russia in 1786 over the 27 years that elapsed up to its last gasp in 1813.
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© 2008 Cyprian Blamires
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Blamires, C. (2008). Panopticon Dominates Bentham’s Existence. In: The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227729_3
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