Bentham and the arts
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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London
UCL Press
2020, 2020©2020
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
- 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