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
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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
Cyberpunk Tao by Matthew   KowalskiAn Artists Pornography by Matthew   KowalskiWhite Black Grey by Matthew   KowalskiIntra Locution a Cyberia Advent by Matthew   KowalskiMindscape by Luminosity
Luminosity Books
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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 — 206 voters

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
The Symposium by PlatoPoetics by AristotleOedipus Rex by SophoclesFragments by HeraclitusTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Aesthetic Investigations
22 books — 1 voter

The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioThe Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar WildeVicious by V.E. SchwabThe Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Dark academia | Must read
35 books — 24 voters

Baruch Spinoza
“ In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. ”
― Baruch de Spinoza, Spinoza in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte

Roger Scruton
“ Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent. ”
― Roger Scruton

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