Mikhail Bakhtin 1895 – 1975
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895 – 1975) was a Russian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher of language, literary theorist, and philosophical anthropologist whose work, much of it written in obscurity and exile, transformed twentieth-century literary theory after its rediscovery in the 1960s. Working through long decades of provincial isolation under Stalin, he produced studies of Dostoevsky, Rabelais, and the novel that articulated a philosophy of dialogue in which truth is born between persons rather than within them. His concepts of polyphony, carnival, the chronotope, and heteroglossia reshaped literary scholarship and exerted a wide influence on philosophy, communication studies, and education.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Russian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakhtin:
“Truth is not born nor is it found inside the head of an individual person; it is born between people.”
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakhtin:
“To be is to communicate dialogically.”
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakhtin:
“Every word smells of the contexts in which it has lived its life.”
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakhtin:
“The novel is the great dialogic form.”
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakhtin:
“There is neither a first nor a last word; the contexts of dialogue have no limit.”
Mikhail Bakhtin by topic
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