The Bakhtin Circle Philosophy, Culture and Politics

by Brandist, Craig

• ISBN13: 9780745318103
• ISBN10: 074531810X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

Reveals that much of the work attributed to Bakhtin was actually written in collaboration with the Bakhtin Circle.

Author Biography

Craig Brandist is lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield and former Max Hayward Fellow of Russian Literature at St Antony's College, Oxford (1994-6). He is the author of Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (Palgrave, 1996) and Materializing Bakhtin: the Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory (Palgrave, 2000) co-edited with Galin Tihanov, as well as numerous articles dedicated to Russian literature, cultural theory and intellectual history.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Introduction	1	(26)
The problems of Bakhtin studies	1	(2)
Problems of publication and translation	3	(2)
Biographical sketch	5	(6)
The phenomenon of the Circle	11	(1)
Periods of work	12	(3)
Philosophical trends	15	(9)
Neo-Kantianism	16	(2)
Lebensphilosophie	18	(1)
Phenomenology	19	(2)
Gestalt theory	21	(1)
The crisis of neo-Kantianism	22	(1)
Religion	23	(1)
Patterns of appropriation	24	(3)
The Early Ethical and Aesthetic Philosophy of the Circle (1919-26)	27	(26)
Philosophy, culture and politics	27	(5)
Matvei Kagan	32	(2)
Ethics and aesthetics	34	(6)
From ethics to literature	40	(1)
Production of the 'aesthetic object'	41	(3)
`Outsideness'	44	(4)
Crises of `outsideness'	48	(2)
The sociology of interaction	50	(3)
Marxism, Semiotics and Sociology (1926-29)	53	(35)
Marxism and contemporary philosophy	53	(2)
Voloshinov and contemporary psychology	55	(7)
Voloshinov on discourse in life and art	62	(4)
Sociological poetics and Formalism: Medvedev's Formal Method (1928)	66	(8)
Voloshinov's Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929)	74	(7)
Dialogue, literature and 'inner form'	81	(5)
Conclusion	86	(2)
From Verbal Interaction to Dialogue: Dostoevsky and the Novel	88	(17)
Voloshinov: 'Sociological Method and Problems of Syntax'(1929)	88	(3)
Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Art (1929): Dostoevsky's polyphonic novel	91	(8)
Problems of Dostoevsky's Art: discourse in Dostoevsky	99	(6)
The Novel and Literary History (1934-41)	105	(28)
Cassirer and the Hegelian shift	105	(4)
Marrism	109	(3)
Heteroglossia	112	(3)
Heteroglossia and the novel	115	(1)
Poetry and the novel	116	(3)
The `becoming' of the novel	119	(3)
The novel and history	122	(4)
Laughter and critique	126	(2)
Epic and novel	128	(5)
The Novelist as Philosopher (1940-63)	133	(23)
The origins of carnival	134	(3)
Carnival as a 'proto-genre'	137	(3)
The grotesque	140	(3)
Carnival in literature	143	(2)
Socratic dialogue and Menippean satire	145	(3)
Carnival in Dostoevsky	148	(1)
Goethe and realism	149	(6)
Conclusion	155	(1)
Final Methodological Works	156	(17)
'The Problem of Discursive Genres' (1953-54)	157	(7)
The methodology of the human sciences	164	(2)
'The Problem of the Text'	166	(5)
Conclusion	171	(2)
The Bakhtinian Research Programme Yesterday and Today	173	(19)
The achievement so far	173	(3)
Problems and tensions	176	(2)
Realist alternatives	178	(6)
Critical and political alternatives	184	(8)
Abbreviations and References in the Text	192	(5)
Notes	197	(7)
Bibliography	204	(13)
Index	217