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List of aestheticians
This is a
list of
aestheticians
, 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
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
Arthur Danto
William C. Dowling
John Dewey
Jacques Derrida
E
Umberto Eco
Jonathan Edwards
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
F
Jerry Farber
Valentin Feldman
Henri Focillon
Michel Foucault
G
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Alexander Gerard
Nelson Goodman
Edmund Gurney
Etienne Gilson
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
Siri Hustvedt
Francis Hutcheson
J
Francis
Ernest Jackson
Christopher Janaway
James Joyce
K
Immanuel Kant
Mani Kaul
Søren Kierkegaard
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
Longinus
Peter Lunenfeld
Jean-François Lyotard
György Lukács
M
John Maeda
André Malraux
Jacques Maritain
Georg Mehlis
Richard Meltzer
Theodor Mundt
N
Friedrich Nietzsche
O
Michael Oakeshott
P
Walter Pater
Ronald Paulson
Hans Pfitzner
Plato
Edgar
Allan Poe
Steven
Poole
R
Ayn Rand
Thomas Reid
John Ruskin
S
George Santayana
Friedrich
Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Friedrich Schiller
August Wilhelm Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm
Friedrich von Schlegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
Roger Scruton
Calvin Seerveld
Richard Shusterman
Frank Sibley
Eli Siegel
Guy Sircello
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
Michael Sprinker
Johann Georg Sulzer
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Socrates
V
Tudor Vianu
W
Kendall Walton
Morris Weitz
Oscar Wilde
W.K. Wimsatt
Richard Wollheim