Mikhail Bakhtin: Between Phenomenology and Marxism

by Michael F. Bernard-Donals

Overview

The work of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under a single rubric, because its philosophical foundation rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension between these two positions creates philosophical impasses in Bakhtin's work, which have been neglected or ignored in previous studies of Bakhtin. Michael Bernard-Donals examines developments in phenomenological and materialist theory, providing a contextualized study of Bakhtin, a critique of the problems of contemporary criticism, and an original contribution to literary theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521466479
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/24/1995
Series:	Literature, Culture, Theory , #11
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d)

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; bibliography; index.