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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shanafelt, Carrie D., 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.