The Bakhtin circle : philosophy, culture and politics / Craig Brandist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandist, Craig, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bakhtin, M. M.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975--Friends and associates.

Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

x, 221 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto, 2002.

Contents:

The problems of Bakhtin studies 1

Problems of publication and translation 3

Biographical sketch 5

The phenomenon of the Circle 11

Periods of work 12

Philosophical trends 15

Neo-Kantianism 16

Lebensphilosophie 18

Phenomenology 19

Gestalt theory 21

The crisis of neo-Kantianism 22

Religion 23

Patterns of appropriation 24

2 The Early Ethical and Aesthetic Philosophy of the Circle (1919-26) 27

Philosophy, culture and politics 27

Matvei Kagan 32

Ethics and aesthetics 34

From ethics to literature 40

Production of the 'aesthetic object' 41

'Outsideness' 44

Crises of 'outsideness' 48

The sociology of interaction 50

3 Marxism, Semiotics and Sociology (1926-29) 53

Marxism and contemporary philosophy 53

Voloshinov and contemporary psychology 55

Voloshinov on discourse in life and art 62

Sociological poetics and Formalism: Medvedev's Formal Method (1928) 66

Voloshinov's Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929) 74

Dialogue, literature and 'inner form' 81

4 From Verbal Interaction to Dialogue: Dostoevsky and the Novel 88

Voloshinov: 'Sociological Method and Problems of Syntax' (1929) 88

Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Art (1929): Dostoevsky's polyphonic novel 91

Problems of Dostoevsky's Art: discourse in Dostoevsky 99

5 The Novel and Literary History (1934-41) 105

Cassirer and the Hegelian shift 105

Marrism 109

Heteroglossia 112

Heteroglossia and the novel 115

Poetry and the novel 116

The 'becoming' of the novel 119

The novel and history 122

Laughter and critique 126

Epic and novel 128

6 The Novelist as Philosopher (1940-63) 133

The origins of carnival 134

Carnival as a 'proto-genre' 137

The grotesque 140

Carnival in literature 143

Socratic dialogue and Menippean satire 145

Carnival in Dostoevsky 148

Goethe and realism 149

7 Final Methodological Works 156

'The Problem of Discursive Genres' (1953-54) 157

The methodology of the human sciences 164

'The Problem of the Text' 166

8 The Bakhtinian Research Programme Yesterday and Today 173

The achievement so far 173

Problems and tensions 176

Realist alternatives 178

Critical and political alternatives 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-216) and index.

ISBN:

0745318118

074531810X

OCLC:

49044362