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Veneration & Refinement: The Ethics of Fashion
Veneration & Refinement: The Ethics of Fashion
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  • Table of Contents
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1: Fashion and Privilege: David Hume and Luxury Fashion
    • Chapter 2: Fashion and Poverty: The Whig-Tory Debate
    • Chapter 3: Fashion and Justice: Benedict XVI and Feel Good Fashion
    • Chapter 4: Fashion and Beauty: Adam Smith and Celebrity Fashion
    • Chapter 5: Fashion and Vanity: Max Scheler and Craft Fashion
    • Chapter 6: Fashion and Civilisation: Johan Huizinga and Fantasy Fashion
    • Chapter 7: Fashion and Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and Fast Fashion
    • Chapter 8: Fashion and Power: Agamben and Pryzwara on the Vestments of Power
    • Concluding Remarks
  • Home
    • Abbreviations
  • Blog
  • Table of Contents
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1: Fashion and Privilege: David Hume and Luxury Fashion
    • Chapter 2: Fashion and Poverty: The Whig-Tory Debate
    • Chapter 3: Fashion and Justice: Benedict XVI and Feel Good Fashion
    • Chapter 4: Fashion and Beauty: Adam Smith and Celebrity Fashion
    • Chapter 5: Fashion and Vanity: Max Scheler and Craft Fashion
    • Chapter 6: Fashion and Civilisation: Johan Huizinga and Fantasy Fashion
    • Chapter 7: Fashion and Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and Fast Fashion
    • Chapter 8: Fashion and Power: Agamben and Pryzwara on the Vestments of Power
    • Concluding Remarks

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Lacan’s critique of Bentham’s utilitarianism

TheoryBy Graham McAleerDecember 9, 2017Leave a comment

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was involved in the founding of my undergraduate institution, the “Godless College,” University College London.  Nonetheless, I have never been taken with his ethical thought.   Benthamism or utilitarianism is, with Kantianism, one of the two most dominant ethical theories taught at colleges in the Anglosphere.  I’m not sure it has the…

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