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Bentham and the arts / edited by Anthony Julius, Malcolm Quinn, and Philip Schofield.

Contributor(s): Julius, Anthony [editor.] | Quinn, Malcolm, 1963- [editor.] | Schofield, Philip [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: UCL Press, Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsISBN: 9781787357389; 9781787357372; 9781787357365; 97817873573-6; 9781787357402Subject(s): Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 -- Criticism and interpretationOnline resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
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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.

Electronic reproduction. London : UCL Press, 2020. Available in PDF format. Description based on contents viewed 18 May 2020.

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