Mikhail Bakhtin: Between Phenomenology and Marxism

by Michael F. Bernard-Donals

Book Overview

The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism,' 'marxism,' 'prosaics,' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these positions creates philosophical impasses in Bakhtin's work, which have been neglected or ignored partly because these impasses are themselves mirrored by the problems of antifoundationalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521466474
• ISBN13: 9780521466479
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"