Mikel Dufrenne (9 February 1910, in Clermont,

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– 10 June 1995, in

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) was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of

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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

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while being a prisoner of war in a camp with Paul Ricœur. Dufrenne and Ricœur later collaborated on a book on Jaspers.

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 * ''La Notion d'a priori'', 1959; Engl. tr., ''The Notion of the A Priori'' (1966) * ''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)

, "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 *

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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). 1910 births People from Oise 20th-century French writers 1995 deaths Academic staff of the University of Poitiers World War II prisoners of war held by Germany 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French philosophers {{france-philosopher-stub

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