Branches of knowledge

Art, aesthetics and cultural theory

What beauty is and why it matters: from the Poetics and the Critique of Judgement to Hegel's aesthetics and Tolstoy's What Is Art?

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Edmund Burke
• Immanuel Kant
• Hegel
• Nietzsche
• Leo Tolstoy
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Benedetto Croce