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Aesthetics

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Don Quijote de la Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1605 ★ 3.9

A defence of poetry, by P.B. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1890

Styles of Radical Will

Susan Sontag

1969

The Sublime

Samuel Holt Monk

1960

On the history of film style

David Bordwell

1997

Artifacts, art works, and agency

Randall R. Dipert

1993

The esthetic basis of Greek art of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C

Rhys Carpenter

1921

The birth of tragedy out of the spirit of music

Friedrich Nietzsche

1993

Appréciations

Walter Pater

1889

The language of inquiry

Lyn Hejinian

2000

Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac

1868 ★ 3.5

Art's Emotions

Damien Freeman

2012

The sense of beauty

George Santayana

1896 ★ 4.5

Artifice and design

Allen, Barry

2008

The literary criticism of John Ruskin

John Ruskin

1965

The practice of writing

David Lodge

1997

On art and architecture

Paul Tillich

1987

Marius the Epicurean

Walter Pater

1885

Zur Farbenlehre

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1810

Aesthetics and Photography (Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art)

Jonathan Friday

2003

A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful

Edmund Burke

1793

Poetics

Aristotle

1705 ★ 3.9

William Morris and the aesthetic constitution of politics

Bradley J. Macdonald

1999

Beckett and aesthetics

Daniel Albright

2003

Ancient art and ritual

Jane Ellen Harrison

1913

Aesthetics

Susan L. Feagin, Patrick Maynard

1997

Future Campus

Ian Taylor

2016

The Sovereignty of Taste

James S. Hans

2002

Wyndham Lewis's pictorial integer

Thomas Kush

1981

Aesthetic Politics in Fashion

Elke Gaugele

2015

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