Esthete

Esthete (kutoka neno la Kigiriki αἰσθητικός. aisthetikos, yaani "kinachohisika", kutokana na kitenzi αἰσθάνομαι, aisthanomai, yaani "nahisi"; kwa Kiingereza "aesthetics" ) ni tawi la falsafa linalochunguza umbile na asili ya usanii, uzuri, na ladha katika uasilia na kazi za utamaduni wa binadamu.

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 Mario Perniola, 20th Century Aesthetics. Towards A Theory of Feeling, translated by Massimo Verdicchio, London-New Delhi-New York-Sydney, Bloomsbury, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4411-1850-9.
 
 Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Edited by Hans Rainer Sepp and Lester Embree. (Series: Contributions To Phenomenology, Vol. 59) Springer, Dordrecht / Heidelberg / London / New York 2010. ISBN 978-90-481-2470-1
 Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
 Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature, New York, NY, New American Library, 1971
 Derek Allan, Art and the Human Adventure, Andre Malraux's Theory of Art, Rodopi, 2009
 Derek Allan. Art and Time, Cambridge Scholars, 2013.
 Augros, Robert M., Stanciu, George N., The New Story of Science: mind and the universe, Lake Bluff, Ill.: Regnery Gateway, c1984. ISBN 0-89526-833-7 (has significant material on Art, Science and their philosophies)
 John Bender and Gene Blocker Contemporary Philosophy of Art: Readings in Analytic Aesthetics 1993.
 René Bergeron. L'Art et sa spiritualité. Québec, QC.: Éditions du Pelican, 1961.
 Christine Buci-Glucksmann (2003), Esthétique de l'éphémère, Galilée. (French)
 Noël Carroll (2000), Theories of Art Today, University of Wisconsin Press.
 Mario Costa (1999) (in Italian), L'estetica dei media. Avanguardie e tecnologia, Milan: Castelvecchi, ISBN 88-8210-165-7.
 Benedetto Croce (1922), Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic.
 E. S. Dallas (1866), The Gay Science, 2 volumes, on the aesthetics of poetry.
 Danto, Arthur (2003), The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art, Open Court.
 Stephen Davies (1991), Definitions of Art. Terry Eagleton (1990), The Ideology of the Aesthetic. Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-16302-6
 Susan Feagin and Patrick Maynard (1997), Aesthetics. Oxford Readers.
 Penny Florence and Nicola Foster (eds.) (2000), Differential Aesthetics. London: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-1493-X
 Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (eds.), Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. 3rd edition. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
 Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert (1995), Einführung in die Ästhetik, Munich, W. Fink.
 David Goldblatt and Lee B. Brown, ed. (2010), Aesthetics: A Reader in the Philosophy of the Arts. 3rd edition. Pearson Publishing.
 Theodore Gracyk (2011), The Philosophy of Art: An Introduction. Polity Press.
 Greenberg, Clement (1960), "Modernist Painting", The Collected Essays and Criticism 1957–1969, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, 85-92.
 Evelyn Hatcher (ed.), Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. 1999
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1975), Aesthetics. Lectures on Fine Art, trans. T.M. Knox, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
 Hans Hofmann and Sara T Weeks; Bartlett H Hayes; Addison Gallery of American Art; Search for the real, and other essays  (Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1967) 
 Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey (eds.), Art History and Visual Studies. Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09789-1
 Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Women Artists at the Millennium. Massachusetts: October Books/MIT Press, 2006. ISBN 0-262-01226-X
 Kant, Immanuel (1790), Critique of Judgement, Translated by Werner S. Pluhar, Hackett Publishing Co., 1987.
 Kelly, Michael (Editor in Chief) (1998) Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 4 voll., pp. XVII-521, pp. 555, pp. 536, pp. 572; 2224 total pages; 100 b/w photos; ISBN 978-0-19-511307-5. Covers philosophical, historical, sociological, and biographical aspects of Art and Aesthetics worldwide.
 Alexander J. Kent, "Aesthetics: A Lost Cause in Cartographic Theory?" The Cartographic Journal, 42(2) 182-8, 2005.
 Søren Kierkegaard (1843), Either/Or, translated by Alastair Hannay, London, Penguin, 1992
 Peter Kivy (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics. 2004
 Carolyn Korsmeyer (ed.), Aesthetics: The Big Questions. 1998
 Lyotard, Jean-François (1979), The Postmodern Condition, Manchester University Press, 1984.
 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1969), The Visible and the Invisible, Northwestern University Press.
 David Novitz (1992), The Boundaries of Art. Mario Perniola, The Art and Its Shadow, foreword by Hugh J. Silverman, translated by Massimo Verdicchio, London-NewYork, Continuum, 2004.
 Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7
 Griselda Pollock, "Does Art Think?" In: Dana Arnold and Margaret Iverson (eds.) Art and Thought. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2003. 129-174. ISBN 0-631-22715-6.
 Griselda Pollock, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive. Routledge, 2007. ISBN 0-415-41374-5.
 Griselda Pollock, Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts. Routledge, 1996. ISBN 0-415-14128-1.
 George Santayana (1896), The Sense of Beauty. Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory. New York, Modern Library, 1955.
 Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just. Princeton, 2001. ISBN 978-0-691-08959-1
 Friedrich Schiller, (1795), On the Aesthetic Education of Man. Dover Publications, 2004.
 Alan Singer and Allen Dunn (eds.), Literary Aesthetics: A Reader. Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2000. ISBN 978-0-631-20869-3
 Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, The Intertwining of Aesthetics and Ethics: Exceeding of Expectations, Ecstasy, Sublimity. Lexington Books, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4985-2456-8 
 Władysław Tatarkiewicz, A History of Six Ideas: an Essay in Aesthetics, The Hague, 1980. ISBN 978-90-247-2233-4
 Władysław Tatarkiewicz, History of Aesthetics, 3 vols. (1–2, 1970; 3, 1974), The Hague, Mouton.
 Markand Thakar Looking for the 'Harp' Quartet: An Investigation into Musical Beauty. University of Rochester Press, 2011.
 Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?, Penguin Classics, 1995.
 The London Philosophy Study Guide  offers many suggestions on what to read, depending on the student's familiarity with the subject: Aesthetics 
 John M. Valentine, Beginning Aesthetics: An Introduction To The Philosophy of Art. McGraw-Hill, 2006. ISBN 978-0-07-353754-2
 von Vacano, Diego, "The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory," Lanham MD: Lexington: 2007.
 Thomas Wartenberg, The Nature of Art. 2006.
 John Whitehead, Grasping for the Wind. 2001.
 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures on aesthetics, psychology and religious belief, Oxford, Blackwell, 1966.
 Richard Wollheim, Art and its objects, 2nd edn, 1980, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-29706-0

External links
 Aesthetics in Continental Philosophy article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Medieval Theories of Aesthetics article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy''
 Revue online Appareil 
 Postscript 1980– Some Old Problems in New Perspectives
 Aesthetics in Art Education: A Look Toward Implementation 
 More about Art, culture and Education
 An history of aesthetics 
 The Concept of the Aesthetic
 Aesthetics entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 Philosophy of Aesthetics entry in the Philosophy Archive
 Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges: Introduction to Aesthetics
 Art Perception Complete pdf version of art historian David Cycleback's book.

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