Aesthetics  Tags: aesthetics beauty art sublime  

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For quick look-ups of concepts, philosophers, or periods, you might try Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, or the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. For more detailed articles go to the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics or the Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, where you'll find definitions, important thinkers and movements, and aesthetics in various countries and regions of the world. It's also available in four print volumes in the Paley Reference Stacks, call number BH56.E53 1998.  Then move to the two Blackwell sources below for a fuller discussion of the scholarship of aesthetics.