Mikel Dufrenne
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.
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.Works
- Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence, 1947
- Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique, 1953; Eng. tr., The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
- La personnalité de base, 1953
- La Notion d'a priori, 1959; Engl. tr., The Notion of the A Priori
- Jalons, 1966
- La philosophie du néopositivisme, 1967
- Pour l'homme, 1968
- Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence
- Esthétique et philosophie