Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey (English) Paperback Book

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Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts – both literary and cultural – and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century convergence of the two disciplines.In this book, Graham Pechey offers a commentary on Bakhtin's texts in all their complex and allusive 'textuality', keeping a sense throughout of the historical setting in which they were written and of his own interpretation of and response to them. Examining Bakhtin's relationship to Russian Formalism and Soviet Marxism, Pechey focuses on two major interests: the influence of Eastern Orthodox Christianity upon his thinking; and Bakhtin's use of literary criticism and hermeneutics as ways of 'doing philosophy by other means'.

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Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts '

Table of Contents

1. Boundaries versus Binaries 2. Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde 3. Syntax and its Subversion 4. Chronotopicity and Conceptuality 5. The Novel and its Others 6. Eternity and Modernity 7. Philosophy and Theology 8. 'First Philosophy' and the 'First' Bakhtin

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Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts both literary and cultural and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century convergence of the two disciplines.In this book, Graham Pechey offers a commentary on Bakhtins texts in all their complex and allusive textuality, keeping a sense throughout of the historical setting in which they were written and of his own interpretation of and response to them. Examining Bakhtins relationship to Russian Formalism and Soviet Marxism, Pechey focuses on two major interests: the influence of Eastern Orthodox Christianity upon his thinking; and Bakhtins use of literary criticism and hermeneutics as ways of doing philosophy by other means.

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