Mikhail Bakhtin : between phenomenology and Marxism / Michael F. Bernard-Donals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernard-Donals, Michael F.

Series:

Literature, culture, theory ; 11.

Literature, culture, theory ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bakhtin, M. M.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Communism and linguistics.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 187 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Pres, 1994.

Summary:

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 and materialist tendencies in literary scholarship. In Mikhail Bakhtin: between phenomenology and Marxism, Michael Bernard-Donals examines various incarnations of phenomenological and materialist theory -- including the work of Jauss, Fish, Rorty, Althusser, and Pecheux -- and places them beside Bakhtin's work, providing a contextualized study of Bakhtin, a critique of the problems of contemporary critics, and an original contribution to literary theory.

Contents:

1 Problems with Formalism 1

2 Neo-Kantianism and Bakhtin's phenomenology 18

3 Reception and hermeneutics: the search for ideology 47

4 The Marxist texts 87

5 Science and ideology 104

6 Science, praxis, and change 135

7 Bakhtin, the problem of knowledge, and literary studies 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.

ISBN:

0521460980

0521466474

OCLC:

29668801