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Crispin Sartwell

Disciplines:
political philosophy
aesthetics

Summary

American philosopher who has written on beauty, aesthetics, and political philosophy, combining aesthetic theory with anarchist political thought.

Core Contribution

Six Names of Beauty: a meditation on different conceptions of beauty across cultures. Contributed to political philosophy from an anarchist perspective.

Notable Works & Achievements

Six Names of Beauty

Against the State

Historical Influences

Immanuel Kant George Santayana

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Aesthetics

Contemporaries & Peers

Richard Shusterman

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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