Bentham and the arts / / edited by Anthony Julius, Malcolm Quinn, Philip Schofield.
Bentham and the Arts considers the sceptical challenge presented by Jeremy Bentham's hedonistic utilitarianism to the existence of the aesthetic. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines reflect on the implications of Bentham's radical utilitarian approach for our understanding of th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : University College London,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Philosophy and sexuality
- 1. The Epicurean universe of Jeremy Bentham: Taste, beauty and reality
- 2. Not Kant, but Bentham: On taste
- 3. 'Envy accompanied with antipathy': Bentham on the psychology of sexual ressentiment
- Part II. Intellectual history and literature
- 4. Literature, morals and utility: Bentham, Dumont and de Staël
- 5. Jeremy Bentham's imagination and the ethics of prose style: Paraphrase, substitution, translation 6. 'Is it true? ... what is the meaning of it?': Bentham, Romanticism and the fictions of reason
- 7. More Bentham, less Mill
- Part III. Aesthetics, taste and art
- 8. Enlightenment unrefined: Bentham's realism and the analysis of beauty
- 9. Jeremy Bentham's principle of utility and taste: An alternative approach to aesthetics in two stages
- 10. From pain to pleasure: Panopticon dreams and Pentagon Petal
- 11. Bentham's image: The corpo-reality check
- Index.