List of aestheticians
This is a list of aestheticians (or aestheticists), philosophers of art, and aesthetes. That is, people who theorize about the nature of art and beauty.
A
- Theodor Adorno
- Virgil Aldrich
- Anandavardhana
- Sri Aurobindo
- John Anderson
- Yves Marie André
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Aristotle (see Poetics and Rhetoric)
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Mazen Asfour
- Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
- St. Augustine of Hippo
- Jody Azzouni
- Abhinavagupta
B
- Victor Basch
- Yusuf Balasagun
- Roland Barthes
- Georges Bataille
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Monroe Beardsley
- Vissarion Belinsky
- Clive Bell
- Walter Benjamin
- Arnold Berleant
- George Birkhoff
- Max Black
- Maurice Blanchot
- Harold Bloom
- Georg Brandes
- Cesare Brandi
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Ferruccio Busoni
C
- John Cage
- Noël Carroll
- Stanley Cavell
- R. G. Collingwood
- Victor Cousin
- Benedetto Croce
- Gregory Currie
D
E
F
G
H
- Paul Häberlin
- Garry Hagberg
- Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand
- Eduard Hanslick
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- François Hemsterhuis
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Hermann Theodor Hettner
- John Hospers
- Heinrich Gustav Hotho
- David Hume (see Of the Standard of Taste)
- Siri Hustvedt
- Francis Hutcheson
J
- Francis Ernest Jackson
- Christopher Janaway
- James Joyce (see A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
K
- Immanuel Kant (see Critique of Judgment)
- Mani Kaul
- Søren Kierkegaard (see Either/Or)
- Peter Kivy
- Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski
- Joseph Kosuth
L
- Peter Lamarque
- Susanne Langer
- Vernon Lee
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Jerrold Levinson
- Li Zehou
- Liu Gangji
- Liu Xie (see The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons)
- Longinus
- Peter Lunenfeld
- Jean-François Lyotard
- György Lukács
M
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R
S
- George Santayana
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
- Friedrich Schiller
- August Wilhelm Schlegel
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer (see Schopenhauer's aesthetics)
- Roger Scruton
- Calvin Seerveld
- Richard Shusterman
- Frank Sibley (philosopher)
- Eli Siegel
- Guy Sircello
- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
- Michael Sprinker
- Johann Georg Sulzer
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Socrates[1]