The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-0-8101-0591-1
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 578 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 901 g

Reihe: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dufrenne, Mikel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Casey, Edward S.

Über Autor(innen)

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 camp with Paul Ricoeur.