Mikel Dufrenne
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Mikel Dufrenne (9 February 1910, in Clermont, Oise – 10 June 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 being a prisoner of war in a camp with Paul Ricœur. Dufrenne and Ricœur later collaborated on a book on Jaspers.[1]
He founded the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris.[2] His students included Daniel Charles and Louis Marin.[3]
He was also president of the Société Française d’Esthétique for over 20 years.[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)[4]
- La personnalité de base, 1953
- La Notion d'a priori, 1959; Engl. tr., The Notion of the A Priori (1966)[5]
- Jalons, 1966
- La philosophie du néopositivisme, 1967
- Pour l'homme, 1968
- (with Paul Ricœur) Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence (1974)
- Esthétique et philosophie (two volumes, 1976)[6]
References
- ^ a b International Lexicon of Aesthetics website, Mikel Dufrenne
- ^ Springer website, Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, Mikel Dufreene page, published October 31, 2009
- ^ ResearchGate website, Mikel Dufrenne
- ^ Northwestern University Press website, The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
- ^ Google Books website, The Notion of the A Priori
- ^ GoodReads website, Mikel Dufrenne
Further reading
- 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 Holdheim, W. Wolfgang (1979). "The Lessons of Phenomenology". Diacritics. 9 (2): 30–41. doi:10.2307/464782. JSTOR 464782.
- Jean-Baptiste Dussert and Adnen Jdey (ed.), Mikel Dufrenne et l'esthétique: entre phénoménologie et philosophie de la Nature, Rennes (France), Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016 (this book is the first collection of essays devoted to all the aspects of Dufrennes's aesthetic).
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