Mikel Dufrenne

Mikel Dufrenne (1910 in Clermont, Oise – 1995 in Paris) was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism, and is particularly noted for the work The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1953, in French as Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique).

He encountered the work of Karl Jaspers while a prisoner of war, in a camp with Paul Ricoeur.^[1]

Works

• Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence, 1947
• Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique, 1953; Eng. tr., The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1973)
• La personnalité de base, 1953
• Jalons, 1966
• La philosophie du néopositivisme, 1967
• Pour l'homme, 1968
• (with Paul Ricoeur) Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence (1974)
• Esthétique et philosophie (two volumes, 1976)

Notes

1. ^ [1]; Dufrenne and Ricoeur later collaborated on a book on Jaspers.

Works on Mikel Dufrenne

• Robert Magliola,"Part II, Chapter 3: Mikel Dufrenne," Phenomenology and Literature (Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1977; 1978), pp. 142-173 (this influential work explained for the English-language academic world the role of Dufrenne in the formulation of "phenomenological literary theory and criticism"; it also supplied, for hermeneutical philosophy, a chapter-by-chapter description and critique of Dufrenne's monumental Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique). [See W. Wolfgang Holdheim's review of Phenomenology and Literature in Diacritics, Vol. 9, No. 2 (spring 1979) via JSTOR, here http://www.jstor.org/pss/464782].

External links

• (French) [2]

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Name	Dufrenne, Mikel
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Date of birth	1910
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Date of death	1995
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