Uncommon sense : Jeremy Bentham, queer aesthetics, and the politics of taste /
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 literat...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- The trouble with Bentham
- Aesthetics of pleasure, ethics of happiness
- Against rights
- Bentham's queer Christ
- Politics and poetics of liberty.