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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Julius, Anthony, 1956- editor (editor), Quinn, Malcolm, 1963- editor, Schofield, Philip, 1958- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University College London [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.