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The most distinguished philosopher of art in French phenomenology, Dufrenne is faithful to his origins in edmund husserl, martin heidegger, jean-paul sartre, and maurice merleau-ponty. He brought phenomenological aesthetics to a yet to be surpassed level of clarity and originality. His writings were systematic and highly structured, yet fresh and bold in their insights. He confronted classical issues in aesthetics while being open to the new in the art of his time. His students, e.g., Christian Metz, Louis Marin, Olivier Revault D’Allonnes, Daniel Charles, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, have risen to distinction. He founded the department of philosophy at the University of Paris, Nanterre, in the 1960s, inviting emmanuel levinas and paul ricoeur to join him there. Editing La Revue d’Esthétique and directing the book series entitled Collection d’Esthétique, he disseminated a distinctively phenomenological aesthetics throughout the West. At his death, he was the doyen of the philosophy of art in Europe, and widely appreciated elsewhere, including the United States and Quebec, where he taught during his last decades.
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Casey, E.S. (2009). Mikel Dufrenne (1910–1995). In: Sepp, H., Embree, L. (eds) Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2471-8_16
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