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OverviewBentham and the Arts considers the skeptical challenge presented by Bentham’s hedonistic utilitarianism to the existence of the aesthetic, as represented in the oft-quoted statement that, ‘Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of push-pin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either.’ Ranging from poetry and sexual nonconformity to the auto-icon and public sculpture, from Hume, Kant, and de Staël to Freud and Michel Onfray, an excellent crew of contributors brings Jeremy Bentham out from the shadow cast by John Stuart Mill with much new to say on taste and politics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anthony Julius , Malcolm Quinn , Philip SchofieldPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.616kg ISBN: 9781787357372ISBN 10: 1787357376 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 11 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of contributors List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Philip Schofield Part I. Philosophy and Sexuality 1. The Epicurean Universe of Jeremy Bentham: Taste, Beauty, and Reality Philip Schofield 2. Not Kant, but Bentham: On Taste Frances Ferguson 3. ‘Envy Accompanied with Antipathy’: Bentham on the Psychology of Sexual Ressentiment Stella Sandford Part II. Intellectual History and Literature 4. Literature, Morals, and Utility: Bentham, Dumont, and de Staël Emmanuelle de Champs 5. Jeremy Bentham’s Imagination and the Ethics of Prose Style: Paraphrase, Substitution, Translation Jan-Melissa Schramm 6. ‘Is It True? … What is the Meaning of it?’: Bentham, Romanticism, and the Fictions of Reason Tim Milnes 7. More Bentham, Less Mill Anthony Julius Part III. Aesthetics, Taste, and Art 8. Enlightenment Unrefined: Bentham’s Realism and the Analysis of Beauty Malcolm Quinn 9. Jeremy Bentham’s Principle of Utility and Taste: an Alternative Approach to Aesthetics in Two Stages Benjamin Bourcier 10. From Pain to Pleasure: Panopticon Dreams and Pentagon Petal Fran Cottell and Marianne Mueller 11. Bentham’s Image: the Corpo-Reality Check Carolyn Shapiro IndexReviews'after reading the arguments of these eleven writers, I rest my case and declare Bentham being happy: they have done justice, freed him from the monopoly of Millian utilitarianism, and proved his philosophy to be rooted in transgressive tendencies and values' Annals of the University of Bucharest, Philosophy Series 'The essays offer a very rich and stimulating reappraisal of the relationship between Bentham - and, more broadly, Utilitarianism - and the arts.' Journal of Bentham Studies '...A milestone in scholarship on utilitarianism and art history... Not only made more enjoyable by the wide range of quality illustrations [but] most of all provides a revisionist and conclusive analysis of the field, and as such should be read by all.' La Revue d'�tudes benthamiennes 'The essays offer a very rich and stimulating reappraisal of the relationship between Bentham - and, more broadly, Utilitarianism - and the arts.' Journal of Bentham Studies '...A milestone in scholarship on utilitarianism and art history... Not only made more enjoyable by the wide range of quality illustrations [but] most of all provides a revisionist and conclusive analysis of the field, and as such should be read by all.' La Revue d'études benthamiennes 'after reading the arguments of these eleven writers, I rest my case and declare Bentham being happy: they have done justice, freed him from the monopoly of Millian utilitarianism, and proved his philosophy to be rooted in transgressive tendencies and values' Annals of the University of Bucharest, Philosophy Series 'The essays offer a very rich and stimulating reappraisal of the relationship between Bentham - and, more broadly, Utilitarianism - and the arts.' Journal of Bentham Studies '...A milestone in scholarship on utilitarianism and art history... Not only made more enjoyable by the wide range of quality illustrations [but] most of all provides a revisionist and conclusive analysis of the field, and as such should be read by all.' La Revue d'études benthamiennes Author InformationAnthony Julius is Professor of Law and the Arts, UCL, and Deputy Chairman of law firm Mishcon de Reya. His book on arts censorship in liberal democracy will be published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Malcolm Quinn is Professor of Cultural and Political History and Associate Dean of Research for Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon, University of the Arts London. He is the author of Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2013) and is General Editor of The Persistence of Taste (2018). Philip Schofield is Director of the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, UCL, and General Editor of the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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