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Mikhail Bakhtin

Born

in Oryol, Russian empire

November 04, 1895

Died

March 07, 1975

Genre

Philosophy, Social Sciences, Literary Theory

Influences

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Very influential writings of Russian linguist and literary critic Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in 20th-century poststructuralism and the social theory of the novel included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929, see Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky) and The Dialogic Imagination (1975).

This philosopher, semiotician, and scholar on ethics and the philosophy of language. He on a variety of subjects inspired scholars in a number of different traditions of Marxism, semiotics, and religionand in disciplines as diverse as history, philosophy, anthropology, and psychology. Although Bakhtin acted in the debates on aesthetics that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, scholars rediscovered his not well known distinctive position in the ...more

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	The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays 4.17 avg rating — 3,586 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin, Hélène Iswolsky (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 1,527 ratings — published 1965 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics 4.36 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 1963 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by Mikhail Bakhtin, Vern W. McGee (Translator), Caryl Emerson (Editor), Michael Holquist (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toward a Philosophy of the Act by Mikhail Bakhtin, Vadim Liapunov (Contributor), Michael Holquist (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1924 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Questions of Literature and Aesthetics by Mikhail Bakhtin, Daria Olivier (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1975 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Mikhail Bakhtin, Valentin Voloshinov, Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev 3.99 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics 3.61 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1928 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karnavaldan Romana by Mikhail Bakhtin, Cem Soydemir (Translator), Sibel Irzık (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronotopos by Mikhail Bakhtin, Michael C. Frank (Herausgeber), Kirsten Mahlke (Herausgeber) 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.”
― M.M. Bakhtin

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“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.”
― Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

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“...Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction.”
― Bakhtin M.M.

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