List of aestheticians

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
*Simion Bărnuţiu
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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
*Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
*Will Spreen
*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