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
Aesthetics and Politics
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
History of Beauty
Art as Experience
The Poetics of Space
Kursbuch Medienkultur. Die maßgeblichen Theorien von Brecht b... by Bertolt BrechtZeitgenössische Utopieentwürfe in Literatur und Gesellschaft.... by Rolf JuckerVon der Stimme zum Internet. by Detlev SchöttkerThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoDialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente by Max Horkheimer
Medienutopien
9 books — 1 voter
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
193 books — 79 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
241 books — 205 voters
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. NashThe Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
105 books — 18 voters

Aesthetic Value by Alan GoldmanAesthetic Essays by Malcolm BuddContemplating Art by Jerrold LevinsonThe Metaphysics of Beauty by Nick ZangwillAesthetic Concepts by Emily  Brady
Contemporary Aesthetics
10 books — 1 voter

Oscar Wilde
“ Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ariana Reines
“ I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to poin ...more ”
― Ariana Reines

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