Merleau-Ponty jako milník Dufrennova myšlení

Abstract

The aim of this article is to outline the relationship between the ideas of Mikel Dufrenne and those of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Unlike Dufrenne’s work on this distinguished thinker, a Czech translation of which follows in this issue, the author tries to bring out not only the connections (such as their philosophies of perception and their gradual inclination to the philosophy of nature), but differences as well. Considering Dufrenne’s work as a whole, the author focuses on concepts that are exclusively Dufrenne’s, irreducible to the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, in particular Dufrenne’s three-level theory of knowledge, conception of the a priori, and the superior status of aesthetic experience over other kinds of experience.

Keywords

• M. Dufrenne
• M. Merleau-Ponty
• primacy of perception
• philosophy of Nature
• three-level theory of knowledge
• aesthetic experience