List of aestheticians

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

List of aestheticians, aesthetes, or aestheticists, alphabetically:

  • Abhinavagupta
  • Joseph Addison
  • Theodor Adorno
  • Virgil Aldrich
  • Anandavardhana
  • John Anderson
  • Aristotle (see Poetics and Rhetoric)
  • Rudolf Arnheim
  • Mazen Asfour
  • Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
  • Jody Azzouni
  • Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Yusuf Balasagun
  • Béla Balázs
  • Roland Barthes
  • Georges Bataille
  • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
  • Monroe Beardsley
  • Vissarion Belinsky
  • Clive Bell
  • Walter Benjamin
  • Max Black
  • Maurice Blanchot
  • Georg Brandes
  • Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Malcolm Budd
  • Edmund Burke
  • Ferruccio Busoni
  • Stanley Cavell
  • R. G. Collingwood
  • lawrence nitai cook
  • Victor Cousin
  • Benedetto Croce
  • Gregory Currie
  • Hamid Dabashi
  • Carl Dahlhaus
  • Milan Damnjanović
  • Arthur Danto
  • Paul de Man
  • Francesco De Sanctis
  • Madeleine Doran
  • Umberto Eco
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Jerry Farber
  • Henri Focillon
  • Alexander Gerard
  • Nelson Goodman
  • Edmund Gurney
  • Paul Haeberlin
  • Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand
  • Eduard Hanslick
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • François Hemsterhuis
  • Johann Friedrich Herbart
  • Johann Gottfried Herder
  • Hermann Theodor Hettner
  • Heinrich Gustav Hotho
  • David Hume (see Of the Standard of Taste)
  • Francis Hutcheson
  • Inagaki Taruho
  • Roman Ingarden
  • Immanuel Kant (see Critique of Judgment)
  • Mani Kaul
  • Søren Kierkegaard (see Either/Or)
  • Joseph Kosuth
  • 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
  • John Maeda
  • Jacques Maritain
  • Georg Mehlis
  • Richard Meltzer
  • Theodor Mundt
  • Alexander Nehamas
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (see On the Genealogy of Morals)
  • Roger North
  • Novalis
  • Lalita Pandit
  • Walter Pater
  • Ronald Paulson
  • Arnold Perey
  • Hans Pfitzner
  • Plato (see Symposium)
  • Steven Poole
  • Thomas Reid
  • George Santayana
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
  • Arthur Schopenhauer (see Schopenhauer's aesthetics)
  • Roger Scruton
  • Calvin Seerveld
  • Eli Siegel
  • Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
  • Michael Sprinker
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Władysław Tatarkiewicz
  • Leo Tolstoy (see What Is Art?)
  • Tudor Vianu
  • Kendall Walton
  • Oscar Wilde
  • W.K. Wimsatt
  • Richard Wollheim
  • Zeami Motokiyo