This increasing importance of aesthetics was primarily a development in the continental branch of philosophy, although in the past few decades the analytic school has been catching up. Many ...

Talent, judgment and performative skills mattered more than self-expression. It was during the eighteenth century that ‘aesthetics’ emerged as a distinct branch of philosophy, and this was also the ...

It is for these reasons that aesthetic education should be compulsory for all school aged students. Laura D’Olimpio is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of ...