Toward a philosophy of the act / M. M. Bakhtin ; translation and notes by Vadim Liapunov ; edited by Michael Holquist & Vadim Liapunov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Contributor:

Holquist, Michael, 1935-2016.

Liapunov, Vadim, 1935-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

University of Texas Press Slavic series ; no. 10.

University of Texas Press Slavic series ; no. 10

Standardized Title:

K filosofii postupka. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Act (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Communication--Moral and ethical aspects.

Communication.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 106 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993.

Summary:

Toward a Philosophy of the Act contains the first occurrences of themes that occupied Bakhtin throughout his long career. The topics of authoring, responsibility, self and other, the moral significance of 'outsideness, ' participatory thinking, the implications for the individual subject of having 'no-alibi in existence, ' the difference between the world as experienced in actions and the world as represented in discourse - all are broached here in the heat of discovery. This is the 'heart of the heart' of Bakhtin, the center of the dialogue between being and language, the world and mind, 'the given' and 'the created' that forms the core of Bakhtin's distinctive dialogism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-100) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "Third paperback printing, 1999".

ISBN:

0292765347

029270805X

OCLC:

27812740