Esthete

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**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.

## Marejeo
* 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.
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* *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.&nbsp;XVII-521, pp.&nbsp;555, pp.&nbsp;536, pp.&nbsp;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
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## 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.