The eighteenth century created a language of pleasure and pain for judgment.

Evidence

But what is to be done with this resurgence of the matter of pleasure opens up the issues and problems of the aesthetic as such — in DeMan’s work rather than in that of Rousseau. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 550

Categorization

• DEFINE: Jameson glosses DeMan’s ‘eudaemonic valorization’ — the shift of the judgment-locus into an aesthetic register of pleasure and pain.
• XREF: connects to: Interest as pleasure-pain desire causes all thought and naming — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 482; Sentiments functioned as judgments encoding rank and exemption in colonial life — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 256; People rationally allocate pain and pleasure by target moral sensitivity. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 137
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Interest as pleasure-pain desire causes all thought and naming — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 482; Sentiments functioned as judgments encoding rank and exemption in colonial life — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 256; People rationally allocate pain and pleasure by target moral sensitivity. — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 137