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Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject

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Description for Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject Paperback. This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSA; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin as a Modernist thinker torn between an ideological secularity and a profound religious sensibility, invariably concerned with questions of ethics and impelled to turn from philosophy to literature as another way of knowing.

Most major studies of Bakhtin highlight the fragmented and apparently discontinuous nature of his work. Erdinast-Vulcan emphasizes, instead, the underlying coherence of the Bakhtinian project, reading its inherent ambivalences as an intersection of philosophical, literary, and psychological insights into the dynamics of embodied subjectivity. Bakhtin's turn ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
362g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804785839
SKU
V9780804785839
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About Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan is Professor of English at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Reviews for Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject
"A recurrent motif of the book, reflecting both Bakhtin's work and human experience in general, is the subject's need for a framing structure alongside the need to transcend those frames. The ethical subject pushes through the frame while understanding its deep dependence on that very frame - the individual acting at the limits of being even if those limits are ... Read more

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