Aesthetics in Europe and the Americas

Aristotle. The Poetics of Aristotle. Translated by Stephen Halliwell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Beardsley, Monroe C. Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.

Brand, Peggy, and Carolyn Kormeyer, eds. Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Useful anthology on feminist responses to historical and contemporary issues in aesthetics.

Budd, Malcolm. Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry and Music. London: Penguin, 1995.

Carlson, Allen. Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art, and Architecture. London: Routledge, 2000.

Carroll, Noël. A Philosophy of Mass Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Collingwood, Robin George. The Principles of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938.

Danto, Arthur. The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Davies, Stephen. Definitions of Art. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. Useful survey and evaluation of attempts to define art.

Dewey, John. Art As Experience. New York: Putnam, 1934.

Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. (1835–1838), translated by T. M. Knox. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975.

Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste," "Of Tragedy." (1757). In Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, edited by Eugene Miller. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985.

Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Judgment (1790). Translated by Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.

Kearney, Richard, and David Rasmussen, eds. Continental Aesthetics: Romanticism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001. Contains important selections from Schiller, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Croce, Heidegger, Adorno, Barthes, Derrida, and others.

Kelly, Michael, ed. Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Contributions by contemporary authors on a wide-ranging array of topics and writers in aesthetics.

Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen, eds. Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004. Contains important articles from analytic philosophers, including Budd, Carlson, Currie, Danto, Dickie, Hepburn, Kivy, Levinson, Scruton, Sibley, Walton, Weitz, Wollheim, and others.

Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetics of Music. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.

Sibley, Frank. Approach to Aesthetics: Collected Papers on Philosophical Aesthetics. Edited by John Benson, Betty Redfern, and Jeremy Roxbee Cox. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Walton, Kendall L. Mimesis As Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Wollheim, Richard. Art and Its Objects: With Six Supplementary Essays. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1980.