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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
• Aristotle
• Augustine of Hippo
• Yusuf Balasagun
• Liu Xie
• Longinus
• Plato
• Plotinus

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
• Clement Greenberg
• John Hospers
• Siri Hustvedt
• Mani Kaul
• Joseph Kosuth
• Jean-François Lyotard
• André Malraux
• Michael Oakeshott
• Ayn Rand
• Roger Scruton
• Eli Siegel
• Richard Wollheim

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