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Mikhail Bakhtin
Between Phenomenology and Marxism

Part of Literature, Culture, Theory

Author: Michael F. Bernard-Donals, University of Missouri, Columbia

Date Published: March 1995
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521466479

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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 contextualised study of Bakhtin, a critique of the problems of contemporary critics, and an original contribution to literary theory.
- First book to expose and examine the tensions underlying Bakhtin's theoretical position
- Original contribution to literary theory as well as critique of the work of other theorists and critics
- Strong addition to CUP's prestigious series Literature, Culture, Theory
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Product details
- Date Published: March 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466479
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.27kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Problems with formalism
2. Neo-Kantianism and phenomenology
3. Reception and hermeneutics: the search for ideology
4. The Marxist texts
5. Science and ideology
6. Science, praxis, and change
7. Bakhtin, the problem of knowledge and literary studies
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Michael F. Bernard-Donals, University of Missouri, Columbia