Uncommon Sense : Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste /

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"In his extensive private manuscripts, Jeremy Bentham used same-sex male intimacy as a philosophical test-case for the full political and social enfranchisement of women, colonized and enslaved persons, and sexual nonconformists. Bentham argued that oppression in law, philosophy, religion, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shanafelt, Carrie D., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bentham, Jeremy, > 1748-1832.
Philosophers.
Liberty.
Law and aesthetics.
Common sense.
Aesthetics > Political aspects.
Philosophers > Great Britain > Biography.
Pleasure > Political aspects.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The trouble with Bentham
  • Aesthetics of pleasure, ethics of happiness
  • Against rights
  • Bentham's queer Christ
  • Politics and poetics of liberty.

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