Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's severed head will put on display for exhibit, with scientists also looking to see if the famed eccentric may have had autism. Bentham, who died in 1832, was a leading ...
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Jeremy Bentham was an eccentric guy. The 18th century British philosopher is known for designing the Panopticon, a type of prison building with an all-seeing eye. He also asked for his skeleton to be ...
When the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham died in the summer of 1832, he left behind a very specific—and rather odd—set of instructions for the handling of his remains. He wanted his body to be ...
Jeremy Bentham died in 1832. Unlike most people, however, the English philosopher decided on a rather unusual posthumous operation. Bentham made instructions in his will, aged just 21, for him to be ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Bodies end up being preserved in many ways, for many reasons, and through ...
In Monday’s post, I quoted Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner quoting Jeremy Bentham. Although Bentham studied, wrote about and criticized the law, he did not practice it. He is most famously ...
WHEN I first knew this great and good man, he was in his seventy-ninth year, and quite as remarkable for strength of constitution, (though he had been always ailing up to the age of threescore,) and ...
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