Comments on: Welcome http://www.jbentham.com Jeremy Bentham and his influence in Australia Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.jbentham.com?cpage=1#comment-395 admin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:41:38 +0000 http://www.jbentham.com/?page_id=46#comment-395 Yes, though I hardly knew it. In response to your comment I checked my notes and lo and behold I read him before I began the PhD. I never returned for several reasons, none of which reflect ill on Hume. First it was slightly off-topic for my thesis; second, I did not realise, as far as I recall, that he was Australian; third, my reading ended up being directed towards pre-20C resources for long enough for Hume’s contribution to get drowned in the static. I recall reading Hume the same day I read Hartz’ ‘The founding of new societies’. I notice that Hartz is the last ref in Collins and Hume is the first. Maybe now I understand who inspired Collins. I always wondered. For those not in the know Hume wrote: Hume, L. J. (Leonard John), Bentham and bureaucracy, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981. I should do an entry on Hume. It’ll take a while though – I have some 30 or so posts and 10 pages to restore to their former glory! The site was wiped clean in Jan 2010 when I updated Wordpress. For some reason I could not upload my comprehensively backed-up site files, and instead had to retrieve everything one by one from my own individual saves of posts and from Google cache. Yes, though I hardly knew it. In response to your comment I checked my notes and lo and behold I read him before I began the PhD. I never returned for several reasons, none of which reflect ill on Hume. First it was slightly off-topic for my thesis; second, I did not realise, as far as I recall, that he was Australian; third, my reading ended up being directed towards pre-20C resources for long enough for Hume’s contribution to get drowned in the static. I recall reading Hume the same day I read Hartz’ ‘The founding of new societies’. I notice that Hartz is the last ref in Collins and Hume is the first. Maybe now I understand who inspired Collins. I always wondered.

For those not in the know Hume wrote:

Hume, L. J. (Leonard John), Bentham and bureaucracy, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.

I should do an entry on Hume. It’ll take a while though – I have some 30 or so posts and 10 pages to restore to their former glory! The site was wiped clean in Jan 2010 when I updated Wordpress. For some reason I could not upload my comprehensively backed-up site files, and instead had to retrieve everything one by one from my own individual saves of posts and from Google cache.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.jbentham.com?cpage=1#comment-394 Stephen Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:40:20 +0000 http://www.jbentham.com/?page_id=46#comment-394 Have you heard of Len Hume? He was a political scientist at the ANU. An expert on 'Bentham and Bureaucracy' (died in the 1990s.) Have you heard of Len Hume? He was a political scientist at the ANU. An expert on ‘Bentham and Bureaucracy’ (died in the 1990s.)

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