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Mikhail Bakhtin

By Ken Hirschkop

Mikhail Bakhtin

By Ken Hirschkop

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This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin's work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popular festive culture, and the phenomenology of everyday life revolved around a lifelong search for a new kind of modern ethical culture. A detailed examination of the major works reveals the careful interweaving of philosophical and historical argument which makes Bakhtin at once so compelling and so frustrating a writer. Hirschkop treats Bakhtin not as a metaphysician or a philosopher for the ages, but as a writer inevitably drawn into the historical conflicts produced by a modernizing and democratizing Europe. As a consequence, Bakhtin becomes a more sober but also more original writer, with a striking contribution to make to the definition of the democratic project.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
356
Release Date:
2000-03-02
Publication Date:
2002-01-02
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198159617
ISBN13:
9780198159612
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
729 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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