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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 30, 2020) |
| Subject |
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 -- Art
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Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 -- Aesthetics
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Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 fast |
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Bentham, Jeremy 1748-1832 gnd |
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Utilitarianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Aesthetics
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Aesthetics, Modern
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Utilitarianism
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Ästhetik
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Utilitarismus
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
works of art.
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Art
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History
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Art.
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Œuvres d'art.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Julius, Anthony, 1956- editor.
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Quinn, Malcolm, 1963- editor.
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Schofield, Philip, 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787357396 |
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1787357392 |
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9781787357365 |
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1787357368 |
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9781787357402 |
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1787357406 |
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1787357384 |
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9781787357389 |
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1787357376 |
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9781787357372 |
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