"This collection of essays on aesthetics is the first set of Dufrenne's shorter pieces to appear in English. It is arranged thematically and includes works from as early as 1948 to as late as 1974. ... In these essays Dufrenne covers a lot of ground and draws into his discussion of aesthetics a whole range of thinkers, including Barthes, Foucault, Lyotard, Metz, Freud and Derrida. ... These essays are well worth reading both for the quality of the writing and for the continual insights which come to the surface along the way. The text has been devotedly translated and a helpful introduction has been added." -- David Pollard, British Journal of Aesthetics

In the presence of the sensuous: Essays in aesthetics (Contemporary studies in philosophy and the human sciences)

Politics & Social Sciences

Dufrenne, Mikel

Philosophy

Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S.

In the Presence of the Sensuous: Essays in Aesthetics (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)

Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, U.S.A.

The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (Fr. Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique) was first published in 1953. In the first of four parts, Dufrenne distinguishes the "aesthetic object" from the "work of art." In the second, he elucidates types of works of art, especially music and painting. He devotes his third section to aesthetic perception. In the fourth, he describes a Kantian critique of aesthetic experience. A perennial classic in the SPEP series, the work is rounded out by a detailed "Translator's Foreword" especially helpful to readers in aesthetics interested in the context and circumstances around which the original was published as well as the phenomenological background of the book.

The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Northwestern University Press

Originally published in 1966, this pivotal work of Mikel Dufrenne revises Kant’ s notion of a priori, a concept previously given insufficient attention by philosophers, to realize a rich understanding that finally does justice to one of Kant’ s most troubling cruxes. Following the Husserlian analytics of phenomenology, Dufrenne postulates a dualistic conception of the a priori as a structure that expresses itself outside the human subject, but also as a virtual knowledge that points to a philosophy of immediate apprehension or feeling. A friend of Paul Ricoeur, with whom he was detained as a prisoner of war during World War II, Dufrenne’ s work until now has been sorely overlooked by American philosophers.

The Notion of the A Priori (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Greenwood Press

Language and Philosophy:

Praeger

Main Trends in Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art

Holmes & Meier Pub

Language & Philosophy

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Hassell Street Press

In the Presence of the Sensuous (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Humanities Press

Karl Jaspers et la Philosophie de l'existence

Ricœur, Paul

SEUIL

Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique (2 volumes)

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