Hans Maes

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Hans Maes is Professor & Vice Dean at LUCA School of Arts (University of Leuven). Until 2024, he was senior philosophy lecturer and co-director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent.^[1] Since 2024, Maes is the President of the British Society of Aesthetics. He is known for his work in aesthetics and philosophy of art.

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Books

Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration. Routledge. 2021.
Portraits and Philosophy. Routledge. 2020
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics. Oxford University Press. 2017^[2]
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography. Palgrave. 2013
Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays, ed. H. Maes and J. Levinson. Oxford University Press. 2012

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↑ "Notes on Contributors". British Journal of Aesthetics. 55: iii. 2015.
↑ Maes, Hans (2017). Conversations on Art and Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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