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Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government
powers seeking license for ruthlessness-the utilitarian notion of
privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the
panopticon-Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political
emancipation. But perhaps he should be. In his private manuscripts,
Bentham agonized over the injustice of laws prohibiting sexual
nonconformity, questioning state policy that would put someone to
death merely for enjoying an uncommon pleasure. He identified
sources of hatred for sexual nonconformists in philosophy, law,
religion, and literature, arguing that his goal of "the greatest
happiness" would be impossible as long as authorities dictate whose
pleasures can be tolerated and whose must be forbidden. Ultimately,
Bentham came to believe that authorities worked to maximize the
suffering of women, colonized and enslaved persons, and sexual
nonconformists in order to demoralize disenfranchised people and
prevent any challenge to power. In Uncommon Sense, Carrie Shanafelt
reads Bentham's sexual nonconformity papers as an argument for the
toleration of aesthetic difference as the foundation for
egalitarian liberty, shedding new light on eighteenth-century
aesthetics and politics. At odds with the common image of Bentham
as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this
innovative study shows Bentham at his most intimate, outraged by
injustice and desperate for the end of sanctioned, discriminatory
violence.
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