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
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Ferruccio Busoni
== C ==
John Cage
Cesare Brandi
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 (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 ==
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 ==
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 (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
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
Michael Sprinker
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Socrates
== V ==
Tudor Vianu
== W ==
Kendall Walton
Morris Weitz
Oscar Wilde
W.K. Wimsatt
Richard Wollheim
