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[]

• Abhinavagupta
• Theodor Adorno
• Virgil Aldrich
• Anandavardhana
• Sri Aurobindo
• John Anderson
• Yves Marie André
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Aristotle (see Poetics and Rhetoric)
• Rudolf Arnheim
• Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
• St. Augustine of Hippo
• Jody Azzouni

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
• Edmund Burke
• Ferruccio Busoni

C[]

• John Cage
• Noël Carroll
• Stanley Cavell
• R. G. Collingwood
• Victor Cousin
• Benedetto Croce
• Gregory Currie

D[]

• Arthur Danto
• Jacques Derrida
• John Dewey
• William C. Dowling

E[]

• Umberto Eco
• Jonathan Edwards
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

F[]

• Jerry Farber
• Valentin Feldman
• Henri Focillon
• Michel Foucault

G[]

• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Alexander Gerard
• Etienne Gilson
• Nelson Goodman
• Edmund Gurney

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)
• Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski
• Peter Kivy
• 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
• György Lukács
• Peter Lunenfeld
• Jean-François Lyotard

M[]

• John Maeda
• André Malraux
• Jacques Maritain
• Georg Mehlis
• Richard Meltzer
• Theodor Mundt

N[]

• Friedrich Nietzsche

O[]

• Michael Oakeshott
• Luis Oyarzún

P[]

• Walter Pater
• Ronald Paulson
• Hans Pfitzner
• Plato (see Symposium)
• 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 (see Schopenhauer's aesthetics)
• Roger Scruton
• Calvin Seerveld
• Richard Shusterman
• Frank Sibley (philosopher)
• Eli Siegel
• Guy Sircello
• Socrates^[1]
• Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
• Michael Sprinker
• Johann Georg Sulzer
• Algernon Charles Swinburne

T[]

• Peter Thielke^[2]
• Tyagaraja

V[]

• Tudor Vianu
• Iván Vitányi

W[]

• Kendall Walton
• Morris Weitz
• Oscar Wilde
• W.K. Wimsatt
• Richard Wollheim

Z[]

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