Reading Reynolds with Bentham: the idea of the art school in early nineteenth-century

This lecture was the first in the annual Bentham Project Seminars for 2010/11. It was delivered at the invitation of Prof. Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project, UCL. It was adapted from a forthcoming article for ‘Revue d’études benthamiennes’ entitled ‘The Invention of Facts: Bentham’s Ethics and the Education of Public Taste’ which will be published in autumn 2011.

The aim of the Bentham Project is to produce a new scholarly edition of the works and correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the influential jurist, philosopher, and social scientist, whom A.J.P. Taylor described as `the most formidable reasoner who ever applied his gifts to the practical questions of administration and politics'.

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