1 Retraction Note to: Topoi (2007) 26:221–229 DOI 10.1007/s11245-007-9015-y

The author has retracted this article published in Topoi Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 221-229, DOI: 10.1007/s11245-007-9015-y because it contains passages from the previously published manuscript by Mikel Dufrenne The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (Northwestern University Press, 1973), without acknowledging the source. The author apologizes to the Journal and readers as well as the author of the original work.