Appendix A Citing Bentham’s Essay on Political Tactics
The critical edition of Bentham’s Essay, in its Editorial Introduction xiii-xvi (1999) - see Jeremy Bentham, [Essay on] Political Tactics (Oxford: ClarÂendon Press, 1999; eds.
Michael James, Cyprian Blamires and Catherine Pease-Watkin) - notes a variety of unresolvable issues which have reached modern scholars. Is it possible to reconcile the 1791 edition with the 1843 edition of the Essay? According to James and his colleagues, ‘the inspiration and much of the execution of the [1843 edition] were Bentham’s’. Editorial Introduction, at xvi. I turn to Josef Redlich’s The Procedure of the House of Commons: A Study of its History and Present Form (1908). I discuss the import of this work in Chapter 6, this volume. Redlich was the first author to offer a wide-ranging scholarly analysis of Bentham’s Essay. Redlich was largely friendly to Bentham’s project. Moreover, Redlich’s discussion was endorsed by the Clerk of the House of Commons, Cortenay Ilbert. Redlich assumed that he was licenced to draw on any passage in the 1843 text and did so. If Redlich proceeded correctly, the scholar may treat any so-called distinction between Bentham and Benthamite with a light brush. If Bentham is about anything, in a word or two, he is all about connecting the ideal with the practical. Hence, it doesn’t seem to make sense to fault Redlich for discussing Bentham’s idealism in connection with his table, a visual aid for practical use, which table drew the phrase ‘crochetty persistence’ from Redlich’s translator. At 3:183; see text at 136.If there is some unspoken rule about discussing investigators long dead who have left behind work exhibiting a scrambled MS tradition, Marco Guidi has already broken this unstated prohibition. He reviewed the MS difÂficulties and concluded - correctly - that the Essay was worth discussing as ‘a highly theoretical work’. At 318; see text at 132-33. Guidi’s observation supports, I suggest, the work-around I employ in this study.
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