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 ...

Jeremy Bentham had a problem. He may have been dead, but that wasn't it—the iconoclastic philosopher left strict instructions about what to do with his body after his demise in 1832, and they didn't ...

The skeletal body of Jeremy Bentham sits on public display in a glass-fronted case at University College London. Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, left careful instructions for the use of his ...

DEEP in the bowels of one of Britain's oldest universities lies a tourist attraction that's like no other. The preserved corpse of kooky 19th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, dressed up in his ...

One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue sash, ...

Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings less than half of the ...

Brooke Bentham’s debut is an unwavering, unapologetic proclamation of existentialism, societal criticism, and appreciation for the mundane. Navigating your early twenties inevitably brings one face to ...

Driving north from my home in West Yorkshire, I’ve often clocked a road sign marked ‘Bentham’ en route to visiting my parents in Cumbria. I presumed it was a sleepy North Yorkshire town, one where ...