Mikel Dufrenne
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Mikel Dufrenne 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
.
Existentialism
Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...
, 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
Karl Jaspers
Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system...
while a prisoner of war, in a camp with Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricœur was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation...
.
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)
Works on Mikel Dufrenne
- Robert MagliolaRobert MagliolaRoberto Rino Magliola is an Italian-American academic specializing in European hermeneutics and deconstruction, in comparative philosophy, and in inter-religious dialogue...
,"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].