Bakhtin and the Human Sciences No Last Words

by Michael E Gardiner; Michael Mayerfeld Bell

• ISBN13: 9780761955290
• ISBN10: 0761955291
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-25
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays' implications extend into other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtin's work on dialogue, carnival, ethics and everyday life, as well as the relationship between Bakhtin's ideas and those of other important social theorists.In a lively introduction Gardiner and Bell discuss Bakhtin's significance as a major intellectual figure and situate his ideas within current trends and developments in social theory.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONS

Bakhtin and the Human Sciences - Michael Gardiner and Michael Mayerfeld Bell

An Introduction

PART TWO: DIALOGICS

A Bakhtinian Psychology - John Shotter and Michael Billig

From Out of the Heads of Individuals and into the Dialogues between Them

The Dialogics of Narrative Identity - Jennifer De Peuter

Culture as Dialogue - Michael Mayerfeld Bell

Bakhtin and the Dialogic of Society - Dorothy Smith

An Investigation

PART THREE: CARNIVALS

The Grotesque of the Body Electric - Peter Hitchcock

Bakhtin's Dialogical Body Politics - Hwa Yol Jung

Knowing the Subaltern - Michael Bernard-Donals

Bakhtin, Carnival and the Other Voice of the Human Sciences

PART FOUR: CONVERSATIONS

`The Incomparable Monster of Solipsism' - Michael Gardiner

Bakhtin and Merleau-Ponty

Bakhtin and Mannheim - Raymond A Morrow

An Introductory Dialogue

The Death and Rebirth of the Author - Ian Burkitt

The Bakhtin Circle and Bourdieu on Individuality, Language and Revolution

PART FIVE: ETHICS AND EVERYDAY LIVES

Bakhtinian Perspectives on `Everyday Life' Sociology - Courtney Bender

The Shock of the Old - Barry Sandywell

Mikhail Bakhtin's Contributions to the Theory of Time and Alterity

The Norms of Answerability - Greg Nielsen

Bakhtin and the Fourth Postulate