Toward a Philosophy of the Act /
Bakhtin, M. M.
Toward a Philosophy of the Act / M. M. Bakhtin; ed. by Michael Holquist. - 1 online resource (132 p.) - University of Texas Press Slavic Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Transaltor's preface -- Introduction to the russian edition -- Toward a philosophy of the act -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Rescued in 1972 from a storeroom in which rats and seeping water had severely damaged the fifty-year-old manuscript, this text is the earliest major work (1919-1921) of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin. Toward a Philosophy of the Act contains the first occurrences of themes that occupied Bakhtin throughout his long career. The topics of authoring, responsibility, self and other, the moral significance of "outsideness," participatory thinking, the implications for the individual subject of having "no-alibi in existence," the difference between the world as experienced in actions and the world as represented in discourse—all are broached here in the heat of discovery. This is the "heart of the heart" of Bakhtin, the center of the dialogue between being and language, the world and mind, "the given" and "the created" that forms the core of Bakhtin's distinctive dialogism. A special feature of this work is Bakhtin's struggle with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Put very simply, this text is an attempt to go beyond Kant's formulation of the ethical imperative. mci will be important for scholars across the humanities as they grapple with the increasingly vexed relationship between aesthetics and ethics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292792739
10.7560/765344 doi
Act (Philosophy).
Communication--Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics.
Literature--Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
B105.A35 / B3413 1993eb
128/.4
Toward a Philosophy of the Act / M. M. Bakhtin; ed. by Michael Holquist. - 1 online resource (132 p.) - University of Texas Press Slavic Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Transaltor's preface -- Introduction to the russian edition -- Toward a philosophy of the act -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Rescued in 1972 from a storeroom in which rats and seeping water had severely damaged the fifty-year-old manuscript, this text is the earliest major work (1919-1921) of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin. Toward a Philosophy of the Act contains the first occurrences of themes that occupied Bakhtin throughout his long career. The topics of authoring, responsibility, self and other, the moral significance of "outsideness," participatory thinking, the implications for the individual subject of having "no-alibi in existence," the difference between the world as experienced in actions and the world as represented in discourse—all are broached here in the heat of discovery. This is the "heart of the heart" of Bakhtin, the center of the dialogue between being and language, the world and mind, "the given" and "the created" that forms the core of Bakhtin's distinctive dialogism. A special feature of this work is Bakhtin's struggle with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Put very simply, this text is an attempt to go beyond Kant's formulation of the ethical imperative. mci will be important for scholars across the humanities as they grapple with the increasingly vexed relationship between aesthetics and ethics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292792739
10.7560/765344 doi
Act (Philosophy).
Communication--Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics.
Literature--Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
B105.A35 / B3413 1993eb
128/.4