[PDF] Existentialist Aesthetic: Theories of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty

Kaelin’s point is that despite serious inadequacies in the aesthetic positions of both Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (though the latter comes off better in the author’s estimate), the positive promise of exist-entialist aesthetics is that it will carry aesthetics and the philosophers toward a heightened sense of aesthetic life.