Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

In Praise of Shadows
Aesthetic Theory
Critique of Judgment
Ways of Seeing
Poetics
Beauty
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
The Birth of Tragedy
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
History of Beauty
Aesthetics and Politics
Art as Experience
The Poetics of Space
Over de esthetiek by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Judgment by Immanuel KantOn the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich SchillerAesthetic Theory by Theodor W. AdornoThe Republic by Plato
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
190 books — 76 voters

Ways of Seeing by John BergerPoses for Artists Volume 4 - Couples Poses by Justin R. MartinPoses for Artists Volume 3 - Fighting and Various Poses by Justin R. MartinThe Death of the Author by Roland BarthesPoses for Artists Volume 2 - Standing Poses by Justin R. Martin
Contemporary Art
20 books — 13 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan MageeDecoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics by Bernardo KastrupSchopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger SafranskiThe Riddle of the World by Barbara HannanHistorical Dictionary of Schopenhauer's Philosophy by David E. Cartwright
On Schopenhauer
98 books — 8 voters

Susan Sontag
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Susan Sontag, On Photography

Kazuo Ishiguro
An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it. ...more
Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

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