Mikhail Bakhtin
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Biography
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Russian literary theorist and philosopher of language. He was born into a noble family in Russia, and his father and grandfather owned and managed state banks. Few of his works were published during his lifetime. Most of his writing focused on Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, and religious criticism.
Article Summaries
Bakhtin, Mikhail "Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences"
Notable Works/Publications
Books
- Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity (Avtor i geroi v esteticheskoi deiatel´nosti) 1924-7
- Freudianism a Critical Sketch (Freidizm: Kriticheskii ocherk)
- Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Marksizm i filosofia iazyka) 1929
- The work of François Rabelais and the Culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaia kul´tura srednevekov´ia i renessansa)
Articles/Essays
- "Art and Answerability" (“Iskusstvo i otvetstvennost´”) 1919
- "The Problem of Content, Material and Form in Verbal Artistic Creation" (“Problema soderzheniia i formy v slovesnom khudozhestvennom tvorchestve”) 1924
Further Readings
References
- Brandist, Craig. "Bakhtin Circle, The [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. University of Sheffield, 15 July 2005. Web. 07 May 2011. For website, click here.
- Zappen, James P. "Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)" Twentieth-Century Rhetoric and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. Ed. Michael G. Moran and Michelle Ballif. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000. 7-20. For the electronic version, click here.
