Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty. The diplopic ontology of art

Abstract

In this article I study the relation between Merleau-Ponty's ontology and Dufrenne's aesthetics. I also demonstrate that Dufrenne unveils the political dimension involved in every asethetical theory.

Keywords

• Dufrenne
• Merleau-Ponty
• Image
• Imagination
• The imaginary
• art
• aesthetics
• senses
• Ontology
• Phenomenology