Mikel Dufrenne

Mikel Dufrenne (; 9 February 1910, Clermont, Oise – 10 June 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 (Phénoménologie de l'expérience esthétique, 1953).

He encountered the work of Karl Jaspers while being a prisoner of war in a camp with Paul Ricœur. Dufrenne and Ricœur later collaborated on a book on Jaspers.

He founded the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris. His students included Daniel Charles and Louis Marin. La personnalité de base, 1953 La Notion d'a priori, 1959; Engl. tr., The Notion of the A Priori (1966) Jalons, 1966 La philosophie du néopositivisme, 1967 Pour l'homme, 1968 (with Paul Ricœur) Karl Jaspers et la philosophie de l'existence (1974) Esthétique et philosophie (two volumes, 1976)