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.

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

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.

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

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.

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