Bentham and the arts
by Julius, Anthony Quinn, Malcolm Schofield, Philip
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 the history and contemporary nature of art, literature, and aesthetics more generally.
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- Full title :Bentham and the arts / edited by Anthony Julius, Malcolm Quinn and Philip Schofield.
Summary
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 the history and contemporary nature of art, literature, and aesthetics more generally.
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):UCL Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781787357396, 1787357392, 9781787357365, 1787357368, 9781787357402, 1787357406, 1787357384, 9781787357389, 1787357376, 9781787357372
- oclc:on1153354831
- LC Classification:B1574.B34
- Dewey Decimal:192
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
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