Jeremy Bentham and the Internationalist Dimensions of the Concept of Public Opinion in the Enlightenment
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Abstract
In view of the international political sphere's last events and its global public debate, the author aims to search in the origins of this «new» concept of International Public Opinion. For the approach to the history of the concept of Public Opinion from an international, comparative, perspective, makes evidence of the transnational dimensions of the phenomenon, mostly arisen in a simultaneous way all over the Continent, linked to the enlightened cosmopolitan spirit as to the République des Lettres' tradition. This International Public Opinion shows as an early peculiarity its commitment with the cause of the Universal Peace, from Voltaire or Kant (as in Enlightened Spanish authors such as Traggia or Jovellanos), to the most explicit and achieved formulation conceived by Bentham
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