Bentham and the arts - Julius, Anthony; Quinn, Malcolm, 1963-; Schofield, Philip (UCL Press, 2020)
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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Keywords: Bentham, Jeremy, -- 1748-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation