Bakhtin: Ethics and Mechanics
| PUBLISHER | Northwestern University Press (03/18/2004) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Description
A fascinating collection of essays about Bakhtin that incorporate a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including theater arts, philosophy, history, women's studies, Latin American literature, and Russian literature. The authors take Bakhtin's ethics, as articulated in his writings of 1919-1929, and extend them into areas of thought that themselves enter into fruitful dialogue with his theoretical positions, endeavoring at all times to remain cognizant of both Russian and Western views of Bakhtin. The essayists' interactions attest to the productivity of any thoughtful encounter with Bakhtin's work and to the transformational nature of his work's impact on the myriad disciplines that it affects. The early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, though also informed by Bakhtin's later works of the early 1970s, the authors in this volume explore the human and prosaic dimensions of ethical and moral dilemmas, whether in the philosophical concerns of the Young Hegelians, the iconography and implicit doctrine of Christian redemption in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, in testimonial accounts of political martyrs in Latin America, or in the nationalist features of Russian Village Prose. Bakhtin's thought exerted a profound, systemic influence on many areas of knowledge as they have been configured in the twentieth century and, as this volume amply demonstrates, promises to do the same for the twenty-first.
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ISBN-13:
9780810116719
ISBN-10:
0810116715
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
128
Carton Quantity:
34
Product Dimensions:
6.18 x 0.61 x 9.22 inches
Weight:
0.72 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism | Russian & Soviet
Grade Level:
College Junior
and up
Dewey Decimal:
801.950
Library of Congress Control Number:
2003009363
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A fascinating collection of essays about Bakhtin that incorporate a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including theater arts, philosophy, history, women's studies, Latin American literature, and Russian literature. The authors take Bakhtin's ethics, as articulated in his writings of 1919-1929, and extend them into areas of thought that themselves enter into fruitful dialogue with his theoretical positions, endeavoring at all times to remain cognizant of both Russian and Western views of Bakhtin. The essayists' interactions attest to the productivity of any thoughtful encounter with Bakhtin's work and to the transformational nature of his work's impact on the myriad disciplines that it affects. The early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, though also informed by Bakhtin's later works of the early 1970s, the authors in this volume explore the human and prosaic dimensions of ethical and moral dilemmas, whether in the philosophical concerns of the Young Hegelians, the iconography and implicit doctrine of Christian redemption in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, in testimonial accounts of political martyrs in Latin America, or in the nationalist features of Russian Village Prose. Bakhtin's thought exerted a profound, systemic influence on many areas of knowledge as they have been configured in the twentieth century and, as this volume amply demonstrates, promises to do the same for the twenty-first.
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Editor:
Nollan, Valerie Z.
Valerie Z. Nollan is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Rhodes College and editor and translator of Vladimir Soloukhin's A Time to Gather Stones (1993), also from Northwestern University Press.
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