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The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existenti)
Mikel Dufrenne
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Description for The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existenti)
Paperback. Num Pages: 578 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 885.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
578
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810105911
SKU
V9780810105911
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About Mikel Dufrenne
Mikel Dufrenne (February 9, 1910, Clermont, Oise – June 10, 1995, Paris) 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 (1953, in French as Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique). He encountered the work of Karl Jaspers while a prisoner of war, in a ... Read more
Reviews for The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existenti)
It is a tour de force by a man who is philosophically very close to Merleau-Ponty, and who has a deep appreciation for a wide spectrum of works of art." —The Review of Metaphysics