List of philosophers of art

This is a list of aestheticians, notable philosophers of art, who theorize about the nature of art and beauty.

Born before 17th century Abhinavagupta Thomas Aquinas Ibn Arabi Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Yusuf Balasagun Liu Xie Longinus Petrarch Plato Plotinus Quintilian

Born in the 17th or 18th century

Georg Anton Friedrich Ast Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Edmund Burke Victor Cousin Jonathan Edwards Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Johann Friedrich Herbart Johann Gottfried Herder David Hume Francis Hutcheson Immanuel Kant Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Thomas Reid Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Friedrich Schiller August Wilhelm Schlegel Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel Arthur Schopenhauer Johann Georg Sulzer Tyagaraja

Born in the 19th century

Vissarion Belinsky Clive Bell Walter Benjamin George Birkhoff Georg Brandes Ferruccio Busoni R. G. Collingwood Benedetto Croce John Dewey Ralph Waldo Emerson Etienne Gilson Eduard Hanslick Søren Kierkegaard Susanne Langer Vernon Lee György Lukács Herbert Marcuse Jacques Maritain Friedrich Nietzsche Walter Pater Hans Pfitzner Edgar Allan Poe John Ruskin George Santayana Viktor Shklovsky Algernon Charles Swinburne Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Oscar Wilde

Born in the 20th century

Theodor Adorno Rudolf Arnheim Sri Aurobindo Roland Barthes Georges Bataille Max Black Maurice Blanchot Harold Bloom John Cage Stanley Cavell Arthur Danto Jacques Derrida Umberto Eco Michel Foucault Hans-Georg Gadamer Nelson Goodman Antonio Gramsci Clement Greenberg John Hospers Siri Hustvedt Mani Kaul Joseph Kosuth Jean-François Lyotard André Malraux Michael Oakeshott Ayn Rand John Roberts (philosopher) Edward Said Roger Scruton Eli Siegel Richard Wollheim