List of aestheticians

List of aestheticians, aesthetes, or aestheticists, alphabetically:

• Abhinavagupta
• Joseph Addison
• Theodor Adorno
• Virgil Aldrich
• Anandavardhana
• John Anderson
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Aristotle (see Poetics and Rhetoric)
• Rudolf Arnheim
• Mazen Asfour
• Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
• Jody Azzouni
• Mikhail Bakhtin
• Yusuf Balasagun
• Béla Balázs
• Simion Bărnuţiu
• Roland Barthes
• Georges Bataille
• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
• Monroe Beardsley
• Vissarion Belinsky
• Clive Bell
• Walter Benjamin
• Max Black
• Maurice Blanchot
• Harold Bloom
• Georg Brandes
• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• Malcolm Budd
• Edmund Burke
• Ferruccio Busoni
• Stanley Cavell
• R. G. Collingwood
• Victor Cousin
• Benedetto Croce
• Gregory Currie
• Hamid Dabashi
• Carl Dahlhaus
• Milan Damnjanović
• Arthur Danto
• Paul de Man
• Francesco De Sanctis
• John Dewey
• 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
• John Hospers
• Heinrich Gustav Hotho
• David Hume (see Of the Standard of Taste)
• Francis Hutcheson
• Inagaki Taruho
• Roman Ingarden
• Francis Ernest Jackson
• Christopher Janaway
• James Joyce (see A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
• Immanuel Kant (see Critique of Judgment)
• Mani Kaul
• Søren Kierkegaard (see Either/Or)
• Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski
• 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
• André Malraux
• Jacques Maritain
• Georg Mehlis
• Richard Meltzer
• Theodor Mundt
• Joseph Nechvatal
• 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
• Ayn Rand (see The Romantic Manifesto)
• 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
• Richard Shusterman
• Frank Sibley (philosopher)
• Eli Siegel
• Marilee St. Louis
• Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
• Will Spreen
• Michael Sprinker
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz
• Leo Tolstoy (see What Is Art?)
• Rachida Triki
• Tudor Vianu
• Kendall Walton
• Morris Weitz
• Oscar Wilde
• W.K. Wimsatt
• Richard Wollheim
• Zeami Motokiyo

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