Download pdf maurice merleau ponty and aesthetics free. Mikel dufrenne recognizes in pure aesthetic experience an incipient phenomenological reduction that brings to the fore the intentional bond between subject. Mikel dufrenne february 9, 1910, clermont, oise june 10, 1995, paris was a french philosopher and aesthetician. The phenomenology of aesthetic experience studies in. They simply step aside of rather simplistic dichotomy of psychologism, materialism or cultural relativism on one side and metaphysical essentialism, esotericism on the other. Dufrennes never tiring efforts in phenomenological aesthetics will be outlined. This thesis discusses mikel dufrennes view presented in the phenomenology of aesthetic experience 1953 that. Click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. The phenomenology of aesthetic experience mikel dufrenne.
Moreover, they are particularly compatible with the french phenomenologist, mikel dufrennes systematic and rich account of the nature of. Shaun argues that the aim then is to combine phenomenology and science to get the full picture of lived experience. In short, it is an approach to film as a phenomenon. The aesthetic in religious experience volume 4 issue 1 f. The phenomenological approach to poetry springerlink. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Springsted, philosophy for understanding theology, 2 nd ed. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Mikel dufrenne author of the phenomenology of aesthetic. The phenomenology of film focuses on the relation between filmgoer and film through the conditions and aspects of the film experience. The appearance of things is an important and potentially major contribution to the philosophy of art, despite some weaknesses that i will outline below. The phenomenology of aesthetic experience by mikel dufrenne. Dufrenne and the virtual as an aesthetic categoryin.
This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of maurice merleauponty. It stresses that only those that have experienced phenomena can communicate them to the outside world. The journal of aesthetics and art criticism is currently published by the american society for aesthetics. The aesthetic object and the technical object mikel dufrenne the. Dufrenne, mikel, the phenomenology of aesthetic experience, trans. Selected studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy, vol 7. Aesthetic experience and aesthetic object monoskop. In the first of four parts, dufrenne distinguishes the aesthetic object from the. Phenomenology as a body of ideas was seen, in other words, as a useful descriptive and evaluative tool in the arsenal of the theoristcritic in. The phenomenology of aesthetic experience spep studies in.
Liza veale looks at the study of mindfulness and its relationship to phenomenology. Mikel dufrenne is the author of the phenomenology of aesthetic experience 3. The aesthetic object and the technical object mikel dufrenne. Aesthetic experience and literary hermeneutics hans robert. The correct sense of a phrase cannot be determined by a reference to reality, since the referent itself does not fix sense, and reality itself is defined as the complex of competing senses attached to a referent. Oct 01, 2010 from aristotlea s poetics to the twentyi rst centurya s commentaries, distinguished philosophers have concerned themselves with art and literature. Autonomy and death of the arts 1 autonomy and death of the arts 1 coveos, costis m. The phenomenology of aesthetic experience studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy dufrenne, mikel, casey, edward s. Download maurice merleau ponty and aesthetics ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub. Dufrenne promotes a similar conception of plays when he describes what he calls a plays inexhaustible depth.
Inlyotard earned a state doctorate with his dissertation discours, figure under mikel dufrenne the work was published the same year. The phenomenology of aesthetic experience by mikel dufrenne, edward s. The digital uncanny and ghost effects uc davis arts. Mar 16, 2015 click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. Perhaps, after all, the work of art issues from this dialectic of form and matter which is played beneath the gaze of spectator or listener and for whom the artist would be like the ingenious director metteur en oeuvre ou en scene. In later years he dedicated a great part of his studies to aesthetic questions, such as le poetique 1963 in the following decade. Dufrenne argues that the aesthetic experience produces affect or feeling that is pure because it is a capacity of receptivity, a sensibility to a certain world, and an aptitude for perceiving that. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in jstor and the most recently published issue of a journal. As a philosophical movement it was founded in the early years of the 20th century by edmund husserl and was later expanded upon by a circle of his followers at the universities of gottingen and munich in germany. This article details the use of phenomenology as a research method which is to fully describe a persons lived experience of an event or experience. Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, aesthetics as phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affecthow art changes our everyday disposition or behavior.
Export a ris file for endnote, procite, reference manager, zotero, mendeley. Although this monograph comprises a dedicated work of phenomenology, it also poses some powerful, if unspoken, rejoinders to current trends on the analytic side of. Three methodological points demonstrated by dufrenne in his midtwentieth century phenomenology of aesthetic experience 1953, 1973 should help secure the notion of world as central to an experiential or ontological film aesthetic. Philosophers and artists consider the relevance of maurice merleaupontys philosophy for understanding art and aesthetic experience. Dufrenne mikel phenomenology of aesthetic experience. The aesthetic in religious experience religious studies. Westminsterjohn knox press, 2007, 200 aidan nichols, o. Essays on art criticism and the philosophy of art, ed. The aesthetic object and the technical object mikel.
Aug 12, 2016 using phenomenology to improve psychologys understanding of aesthetic experience. Art, empathy, truth on the phenomenology of aesthetic experience. The phenomenological character of aesthetic experience. In most cases their interest has focused on the creative act itself, as in the work of mikel dufrenne in the phenomenology of aesthetic experience1 or the later work of martin heidegger as is found in poetry, language, thought. This paper has been translated into english by miss louise mahru, a. Handbook of phenomenological aesthetics contributions to phenomenology. First, there is his parallelism between phenomenological reduction and aesthetic experience.
The aesthetic experience, appreciation of, and concern about nature. In the first of four parts, dufrenne distinguishes the aesthetic object from. Dufrenne and the virtual as an aesthetic categoryin phenomenology. Mikel dufrenne and the phenomenology of aesthetic experience many features of our empirical material are generally mirrored in theories about aesthetic experience found in philosophical aesthetics. He is known as an author of existentialism, and is particularly noted for the work the phenomenology of aesthetic experience 1953, in. In the first of four parts, dufrenne distinguishes the aesthetic object from the work of art. Handbook of phenomenological aesthetics contributions to. This paper attempts to provide perspective in understanding the human beings aesthetic perception by synthesizing thomas aquinass thoughts on aesthetic perception, thomist jacques maritains philosophy of art, and umberto ecos analysis and expansion of the aesthetics of aquinas. Phenomenology from greek phainomenon that which appears and logos study is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Such is the venerable thesis of the traditional aesthetic that dufrenne recalls with. The human being as a unity in aesthetic perception. Nov 15, 2019 mikel dufrenne and the phenomenology of aesthetic experience many features of our empirical material are generally mirrored in theories about aesthetic experience found in philosophical aesthetics. According to dufrenne the aesthetic experience is the reading of, and contemplation on. Abstract this thesis discusses mikel dufrennes view presented in the phenomenology of aesthetic experience 1953 that the aesthetic experience is a fundamental aspect of human existence, which is valuable in its own right because it conveys truth.
I do not want to say, by calling the phenomenological approach privileged, that it should exclude others. In rare instances, a publisher has elected to have a zero moving wall, so their current issues are available. More than 1 million books in pdf, epub, mobi, tuebl and audiobook formats. Buy handbook of phenomenological aesthetics contributions to phenomenology by sepp, hans rainer, embree, lester isbn. In the second, he elucidates types of works of art, especially music and painting. Philpapers logo by andrea andrews and meghan driscoll. Sobchacks overriding focus on what are presented as fundamental visual, spatial, and. This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated. It therefore provides an understanding of an experience from those who have lived it. Mikel dufrenne 9 february 1910, in clermont, oise 10 june 1995, in paris was a french philosopher and aesthetician.
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