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.
He founded the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris. His students included Daniel Charles and Louis Marin.
He was also president of the Société Française d’Esthétique for over 20 years.

Works

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

''Esthétique et philosophie''