List of aestheticians
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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.
See also: Index of aesthetics articles
A[edit]
- Andreas Linder
- 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
B[edit]
- 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
- Cameron Breen
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Ferruccio Busoni
C[edit]
- John Cage
- Cesare Brandi
- Stanley Cavell
- R. G. Collingwood
- Victor Cousin
- Benedetto Croce
- Gregory Currie
D[edit]
Jacques Derrida
E[edit]
F[edit]
G[edit]
H[edit]
- 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)
- Francis Hutcheson
J[edit]
- Francis Ernest Jackson
- Christopher Janaway
- James Joyce (see A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
K[edit]
- Immanuel Kant (see Critique of Judgment)
- Mani Kaul
- Søren Kierkegaard (see Either/Or)
- Peter Kivy
- Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski
- Joseph Kosuth
L[edit]
- Susanne Langer
- Vernon Lee
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Jerrold Levinson
- Liu Xie (see The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons)
- Longinus
- Peter Lunenfeld
- Jean-François Lyotard
- György Lukács
M[edit]
N[edit]
O[edit]
P[edit]
- Lalita Pandit
- Walter Pater
- Ronald Paulson
- Hans Pfitzner
- Plato (see Symposium)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Steven Poole
R[edit]
S[edit]
- 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
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Socrates[1]
