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
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Aesthetics and Politics
History of Beauty
Art as Experience
The Poetics of Space
The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail BakhtinPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireRabelais and His World by Mikhail BakhtinStructuralist Poetics by Jonathan D. CullerThe State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
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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
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A History of Photography by Therese MulliganMannequins by Brandy IsadoraThe Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists by Peter  MurrayGentleman's Relish by Ronnie BarkerWritings and Drawings by Bob Dylan
Books Relating To Art
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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
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The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan MageeDecoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics by Bernardo KastrupSchopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger SafranskiThe Riddle of the World by Barbara HannanHistorical Dictionary of Schopenhauer's Philosophy by David E. Cartwright
On Schopenhauer
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Andrew Juniper, Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen Philosophy of Beauty in Simplicity

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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