Talk:Mikel Dufrenne

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http://www.culturesfrance.com/adpf-publi/folio/philo4/05.html

is not a reliable reference. It is riddled with errors. The fr.wikipedia.org is no help.

I own several of his books in French (In early 80's I was studying philosophy at a University where he taught in the art dept as a visiting prof - he had no contacts in the phil depart to my knowledge although a student of Ricoeur was in that department.)

I am trying to make sense of when he and Ricoeur first began to work on Jaspers. I am now considering in that this may have been later than they reported.

The 1947 volume by Ricoeur and Dufrenne is bizarre - in 1947 Jaspers published his massive "Von der Wahrheit" - I have still to see what of that appears in the Ricoeur of 1948 which is hard to find here.

The Ricoeur article in Schlipp "Jaspers" is even worse - so I have gone back to the strange chapter in the 1947 book in which they pit Jaspers against Heidegger. Shortly after, being pro-Heidegger became very important to a career. In the Dufrenne 1953 there is no sign of Jaspers but great praise for the Heidegger Kant volume.

It is a commonplace to link these two philosophers, Dufrenne and Ricoeur to Jaspers, but this is now my view: having been exposed by Ge. Gusdorf and assigned to the boondocks, they latched onto Jaspers. Oops. Jaspers failed to catch on. Dufrenne never looked back.

What is bizarre is to see that there was no 2nd edition of the Jaspers book to address "Von Der Wahreit" - in spite of their complaints in their book that his treatment of truth was not clear to them and scattered across his work.

G. Robert Shiplett

SVP confer French article[edit]

Dufrenne was also active in the art school that became l'UQAM in Montreal, Canada ?? Was still active at the time of his death ? See his article contributed to Encyclopaedia Universalis and the articel in same on his person. Grshifflet (talk) 15:00, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]