"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

Les tomes 1 et 2 qui rassemblent une trentaine d'articles - le premier, reedition d'un livre qui avait inaugure la Collection d'Esthetique en 1967 - sont l'oeuvre d'un philosophe qui a decouvert dans l'esthetique une voie privilegiee vers une philosophie de la nature. Mikel Dufrenne y explore des themes qui hantent la reflexion contemporaine sur l'art: l'art comme [non-]langage, l'oeuvre comme objet ou evenement, l'ecriture et le style, le jeu, la perception sauvage, le retour vers l'originaire. Chemin faisant, il rencontre les appareils conceptuels en vogue: structuralisme, semiologie, psychanalyse, marxisme; il en use, mais avec reserve, sans se laisser seduire ou terroriser; et c'est en solitaire qu'il poursuit sa route, sans moyens, sans pouvoir. Mais il ne s'y sent pas seul: une esthetique non dogmatique debouche sur le politique, et il veut etre l'echo de tous ceux qui en appellent a un art autre, libere et liberateur, joyeux, et qui revent que la pratique de cet art contribue a faire la vie autre dans un monde autre. Mikel Dufrenne n'est pas un philosophe triste. Si vous preferez Thanatos a Eros, ne le lisez pas !

Esthétique et philosophie Tome II (Collection D'esthetique, 27) (French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Les Belles Lettres

Les tomes 1 et 2 qui rassemblent une trentaine d'articles le premier, rdition d'un livre qui avait inaugur la Collection d'Esthtique en 1967 sont l'oeuvre d'un philosophe qui a dcouvert dans l'esthtique une voie privilgie vers une philosophie de la nature. Mikel Dufrenne y explore des thmes qui hantent la rflexion contemporaine sur l'art: l'art comme [non-]langage, l'oeuvre comme objet ou vnement, l'criture et le style, le jeu, la perception sauvage, le retour vers l'originaire. Chemin faisant, il rencontre les appareils conceptuels en vogue: structuralisme, smiologie, psychanalyse, marxisme; il en use, mais avec rserve, sans se laisser sduire ou terroriser; et c'est en solitaire qu'il poursuit sa route, sans moyens, sans pouvoir. Mais il ne s'y sent pas seul: une esthtique non dogmatique dbouche sur le politique, et il veut tre l'cho de tous ceux qui en appellent un art autre, libr et librateur, joyeux, et qui rvent que la pratique de cet art contribue faire la vie autre dans un monde autre. Mikel Dufrenne n'est pas un philosophe triste. Si vous prfrez Thanatos Eros, ne le lisez pas!

Esthetique Et Philosophie Tome I (Collection D'Esthetique) (Volume 1) (French Edition)

Klincksieck

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