One of the biggest mysteries from season 5 of Lost was the presence of Jeremy Bentham. From the first episode in 2004, the ...

That might sound more than a tad grim, but is exactly what happened in the case of Jeremy Bentham. Born in Spitalfields, London, on February 15, 1748, Bentham was a child prodigy, learning Latin ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

Where was Bentham originally placed on display? For decades, Jeremy Bentham's body was on display in a corridor of the Wilkins Building at UCL, housed inside a wooden cabinet. The head is made of ...

In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can observe any inmate at will. As far as a prisoner knows, at any given ...