His seminal work is concerned with the principles of legislation and the hedonic calculus is introduced with the words “ Pleasures then, and the avoidance of pains, are the ends that the legislator has in view .” In Chapter VII Bentham says, “ The business of government is to promote the happiness of the society, by punishing and rewarding … In proportion as an act tends to disturb that happiness, in proportion as the tendency of it is pernicious, will be the demand it creates for punishment .”

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

He broke new ground with Los Placeres Prohibidos (" Forbidden Pleasures "), an avant-garde work in which the poet used surrealism to explore his sexuality.

In The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work ( 2009 ), a survey of ten different jobs, including accountancy, rocket science and biscuit manufacture, which includes two hundred original images and aims to unlock the beauty, interest and occasional horror of the modern world of work.

His use of Cleopatra's poem from D. M. Thomas ’ Ararat in Deadly Pleasures is highlighted by his setting of the work for narrator and ensemble.

In 2008, Scott Murphy also recorded his solo EP entitled Guilty Pleasures II as a continuation of the band's past work.

Marshall continued to perform on his own and to work on solo projects, independently producing and releasing four cds: Memories of Amnesia ( 2001 ), Fantaseality ( 2003 ), Pleasures of the Funky ( 2005 ) and Heaven's Ghetto ( 2009 ).

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

Prominent examples of such work include Louis Menand ’ s The Metaphysical Club and Martin Jay ’ s The Dialectical Imagination.

( It should be noted that the London School of Psychology had instigated psychometric studies of creativity as early as 1927 with the work of H. L. Hargreaves into the Faculty of Imagination, but it did not have the same impact.

* Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, a non-fiction work by Peter Ackroyd

The book Imagination: The Art & Technique of David A. Cherry ( 1987, ISBN 0-89865-564-1 ) is a collection of Cherry's own work and description of his techniques, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for best non-fiction book in 1988.

Additionally, the structure of the work ( surveying multiple, competing definitions of the term " aesthetic ") prefigures his work on multiple definition in Coleridge on Imagination, in Basic Rules of Reason and in Mencius on the Mind.

In addition to his well-known work on The Theory of the Foreign Exchanges, he published several financial and political pamphlets and addresses on educational and social subjects, among them being that on Cultivation of the Imagination, Liverpool, 1877, and that on Intellectual Interest, Aberdeen, 1888.

Bakhtin ’ s primary works include Toward a Philosophy of the Act, an unfinished portion of a philosophical essay ; Problems of Dostoyevsky ’ s Art, to which Bakhtin later added a chapter on the concept of carnival and published with the title Problems of Dostoyevsky ’ s Poetics ; Rabelais and His World, which explores the openness of the Rabelaisian novel ; The Dialogic Imagination, whereby the four essays that comprise the work introduce the concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, and chronotope ; and Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, a collection of essays in which Bakhtin concerns himself with method and culture.

The English terms dialogic and dialogism often refer to the concept used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination.

Lowes's most famous work is The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination ( Houghton Mifflin, 1927 ), which examines the sources of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.

Hayden White ( born July 12, 1928, Martin, Tennessee ) is a historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe ( 1973 ).

His book The Dramatic Imagination is considered the definitive work on modern stage design within the first half of the 20th.

Books of her own work have included The Fantastic Art of Rowena, Imagine ( in France ), Imagination ( in Germany ), and The Art of Rowena.

The new spirit, so well illustrated by Mr. Lyford's work, is wholly free of this anxiety.

Never well known, but he had done his work competently.

One's daily work becomes sacred, since it is performed in the field of influence of the moral law, dealing as it does with people as well as with matter and energy.

Small wonder that Milton later boasted of how well his work had been received there, since he attained a rank in the order of commencing bachelors higher than that of any other inceptor from Christ's of that year.

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

He can encourage quality in faculty committee work in various ways: by seeing to it that the membership of each committee represents the thoughtful as well as the action-oriented faculty ; ;

Often these exercises work well for some bodybuilders but less spectacularly for others.

Be sure you get a perimeter heating system, and diffusers that will work as well for cooling as they do for heating.

Many companies have systems, particularly in R & D, which work more or less well, depending upon size and actual belief in the policy on the part of administration, as will be abundantly apparent in subsequent quotations.

I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

After their work other investigators applied salt-fractionation techniques to the problem, as well as fractionation with organic solvents, such as acetone.

A moment's reflection shows that the above algorithm and presentation work equally well in this case.

No matter how well work is planned, bad weather or unexpected setbacks can cause extra work that must be caught up.

She helped with teaching as well as office work for a few years -- the catalogues show that she had classes in geography, rhetoric and bookkeeping.

These affairs temporarily relieved the monotony of school or work activities containing no anticipation of achievement and joy of craftsmanship, no sense of dignity derived from a job well done.

Mrs. Monte Tyson, chairman, says the work of 100 artists well known in the Delaware Valley area will be included in the exhibition and sale.

I have also constantly engaged in scientific work and am fully aware of the value of opinions formed in science as well as in the religions in the world.

In this session the persons seeking membership are provided information concerning the work of the denomination as well as the program and activities of the local church.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Sergei Vikulov, as the lone male, meets the competition well with some brilliant hits, but the work is designed to belong to the ladies.

There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan's friends and students.

Hundreds of other organizations exist in the various sub-fields of anthropology, sometimes divided up by nation or region, and many anthropologists work with collaborators in other disciplines, such as geology, physics, zoology, paleontology, anatomy, music theory, art history, sociology and so on, belonging to professional societies in those disciplines as well.

Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented ; with their demotion from a primary branch, Proto-Mon – Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto-Austro-Asiatic.