List of aestheticians
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This is a list of aestheticians, philosophers of art, who theorize about the nature of art and beauty.
Born before 17th century
- Abhinavagupta
- Anandavardhana
- Thomas Aquinas
- Aristotle
- Augustine of Hippo
- Yusuf Balasagun
- Liu Xie
- Plato
- Plotinus
Born in the 17th or 18th century
- Yves Marie André
- Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Edmund Burke
- Victor Cousin
- Jonathan Edwards
- Alexander Gerard
- Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- François Hemsterhuis
- David Hume
- Francis Hutcheson
- Immanuel Kant
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Thomas Reid
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
- Friedrich Schiller
- August Wilhelm Schlegel
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
- Johann Georg Sulzer
- Tyagaraja
Born in the 19th century
- John Anderson
- Victor Basch
- Vissarion Belinsky
- Clive Bell
- Walter Benjamin
- George Birkhoff
- Georg Brandes
- Ferruccio Busoni
- R. G. Collingwood
- Benedetto Croce
- John Dewey
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henri Focillon
- Etienne Gilson
- Edmund Gurney
- Paul Häberlin
- Eduard Hanslick
- Hermann Theodor Hettner
- Heinrich Gustav Hotho
- Francis Ernest Jackson
- Søren Kierkegaard (see Either/Or)
- Susanne Langer
- Vernon Lee
- György Lukács
- Jacques Maritain
- Georg Mehlis
- Theodor Mundt
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Walter Pater
- Edgar Allan Poe
- David Prall
- John Ruskin
- George Santayana
- Viktor Shklovsky
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Tudor Vianu
- Oscar Wilde
Born in the 20th century
- Theodor Adorno
- Virgil Aldrich
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Sri Aurobindo
- Jody Azzouni
- Roland Barthes
- Georges Bataille
- Monroe Beardsley
- Arnold Berleant
- Max Black
- Maurice Blanchot
- Harold Bloom
- Cesare Brandi
- John Cage
- Noël Carroll
- Stanley Cavell
- Tsang Lap Chuen
- Gregory Currie
- Arthur Danto
- Jacques Derrida
- George Dickie
- William C. Dowling
- Denis Dutton
- Umberto Eco
- Jerry Farber
- Valentin Feldman
- Michel Foucault
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Alan H. Goldman
- Nelson Goodman
- Garry Hagberg
- John Hospers
- Siri Hustvedt
- Christopher Janaway
- Mani Kaul
- Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski
- Peter Kivy
- Joseph Kosuth
- Peter Lamarque
- Jerrold Levinson
- Li Zehou
- Liu Gangji
- Peter Lunenfeld
- Jean-François Lyotard
- André Malraux
- Richard Meltzer
- Mary Mothersill
- Michael Oakeshott
- Luis Oyarzún
- Ronald Paulson
- Hans Pfitzner
- Steven Poole
- Ayn Rand
- Roger Scruton
- Calvin Seerveld
- Richard Shusterman
- Frank Sibley (philosopher)
- Eli Siegel
- Guy Sircello
- Michael Sprinker
- Peter Thielke
- Iván Vitányi
- Kendall Walton
- Morris Weitz
- William K. Wimsatt
- Richard Wollheim