Ken Hirschkop
Biographic Data
| ID | 296357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Hirschkop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschkop |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHKOP K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1683-7967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From physics to carnival
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin
In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts, Hirschkop explains Bakhtin's influential ideas, demonstrates their relevance and usefulness for literary and cultural analysis, and sets them in their historical context. In clear and concise language, H…
Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin
Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950
Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that range over the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and others, it shows how European intellectuals came to invest ‘language’ with extraordinary force, at a time when the social and political order of the continent was in question…
Bakhtin contra darwinianos e cognitivistas
Este artigo se inicia com uma crítica à teoria da linguagem defendida pelos cientistas cognitivistas, tal como Steven Pinker (O instinto da linguagem), que descrevem, em termos gramaticais, a complexidade da linguagem humana. Suas explicações sobre a pragmática da linguagem, contudo, são demasiadamente simplistas. Pinker é visto como um idealista, em parte porque imagina o contexto de fala apenas enquanto informação compartilhada, negligenciando,…
Editing history
Bakhtin as Praxis
The Bakhtin conference in Stockholm was the latest in a series that began in 1983, and although it had much in common with its predecessors – familiar faces, common themes and worries, a five-day f
Language in 1910 (and after)
It is the autumn of 1910, and Ferdinand de Saussure has embarked on a series of lectures on general linguistics for the third time. He begins with the by now familiar point that the object of linguistics should not be the faculty which we all possess as individuals–the ‘faculty which can be called the faculty of articulated language’–but the social institution, the language system, that allows us to make use of this faculty. 1 But there is a prob…
No Rest for the Wicked
Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart (eds), Restless Cities, London, Verso, 2010; 344pp, 12.99 [pounds sterling] paperback; Susan S. Fainstein, The Just City, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2010; 232pp, 18.50 [pounds sterling] hardback It seemed like a good idea at the time: rather than review the collection Restless Cities on its own, I would twin it with something harder-headed--a careful, sober study of the politics of urban developm…
Justice and Drama
Listening to the Other
Mikhail Bakhtin
This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin's work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popularfestive culture, and …
Mikhail Bakhtin
"This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin's work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popular-festive culture, an…
Mixed Feelings
Diaspora 8:1 1999 Mixed Feelings Ken Hirschkop University of Manchester Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress. Bruce Robbins. New York: New York University Press, 1999. At the very beginning of Feeling Global, Bruce Robbins remarks that "it is not a surprise or scandal that any given version of internationalism turns out to be local and conjunctural rather than universal" (7). Not a surprise, because it's axiomatic for recent thinking abou…
Bakhtin Myths, or, Why We All Need Alibis
Research Article| July 01 1998 Bakhtin Myths, or, Why We All Need Alibis Ken Hirschkop Ken Hirschkop Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 579–598. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-579 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ken Hirschkop; Bakhtin Myths, or, Why We All Need Alibis. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1998; 9…
Cultural Studies and Its Discontents
Alan Sokal's hoax was a childish gesture, but his motivations cannot be Ken Hirschkop dismissed as trivial. His parody was unmistakably aimed not at studies in general but at those who would install cultural studies as the new queen of the sciences. Over the past few years the very idea of has served as a Trojan horse for cultural studies, providing it with an access to other intellectual territories that it has consistently abused. The admission…
Democracy and the New Technologies
Social change without a change in social relations—without the pain, conflict, burden of guilt, and sacrifice the latter would entail—has long been the dream of a particular species of social-democratic and socialist thought.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Is Dialogism for Real
Is dialogism real? In one sense, absolutely. How could one doubt it when discussion of this concept and of its most well known theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, has given rise to such a torrent of articles, books, conferences and commentary? It's real at least in the sense that, say, the 1986 Mets or rap turned out to be for real, its phenomenal success as a theoretical concept indicating it was an idea whose time had come. But even rap and the Mets, ho…
Marxism, Modernism, History
Theories of Discourse
Bakhtin, Discourse and Democracy
Carnival is not seen by the people; they live in it and everyone lives in it, because by its very definition it involves all the people. While carnival takes place, there is no other life beyond it. There is no escape from it, for it knows no spatial
A Response to the Forum on Mikhail Bakhtin
The Social and the Subject in Bakhtin
Cultural Studies and Its Discontents
Alan Sokal's hoax was a childish gesture, but his motivations cannot be Ken Hirschkop dismissed as trivial. His parody was unmistakably aimed not at studies in general but at those who would install cultural studies as the new queen of the sciences. Over the past few years the very idea of has served as a Trojan horse for cultural studies, providing it with an access to other intellectual territories that it has consistently abused. The admission…
Bakhtin, Discourse and Democracy
Carnival is not seen by the people; they live in it and everyone lives in it, because by its very definition it involves all the people. While carnival takes place, there is no other life beyond it. There is no escape from it, for it knows no spatial
Democracy and the New Technologies
Social change without a change in social relations—without the pain, conflict, burden of guilt, and sacrifice the latter would entail—has long been the dream of a particular species of social-democratic and socialist thought.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Is Dialogism for Real
Is dialogism real? In one sense, absolutely. How could one doubt it when discussion of this concept and of its most well known theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, has given rise to such a torrent of articles, books, conferences and commentary? It's real at least in the sense that, say, the 1986 Mets or rap turned out to be for real, its phenomenal success as a theoretical concept indicating it was an idea whose time had come. But even rap and the Mets, ho…
A Response to the Forum on Mikhail Bakhtin
The Social and the Subject in Bakhtin
Bakhtin, Discourse and Democracy
Carnival is not seen by the people; they live in it and everyone lives in it, because by its very definition it involves all the people. While carnival takes place, there is no other life beyond it. There is no escape from it, for it knows no spatial
Theories of Discourse
Marxism, Modernism, History
Is Dialogism for Real
Is dialogism real? In one sense, absolutely. How could one doubt it when discussion of this concept and of its most well known theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, has given rise to such a torrent of articles, books, conferences and commentary? It's real at least in the sense that, say, the 1986 Mets or rap turned out to be for real, its phenomenal success as a theoretical concept indicating it was an idea whose time had come. But even rap and the Mets, ho…
Democracy and the New Technologies
Social change without a change in social relations—without the pain, conflict, burden of guilt, and sacrifice the latter would entail—has long been the dream of a particular species of social-democratic and socialist thought.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Cultural Studies and Its Discontents
Alan Sokal's hoax was a childish gesture, but his motivations cannot be Ken Hirschkop dismissed as trivial. His parody was unmistakably aimed not at studies in general but at those who would install cultural studies as the new queen of the sciences. Over the past few years the very idea of has served as a Trojan horse for cultural studies, providing it with an access to other intellectual territories that it has consistently abused. The admission…
Bakhtin Myths, or, Why We All Need Alibis
Research Article| July 01 1998 Bakhtin Myths, or, Why We All Need Alibis Ken Hirschkop Ken Hirschkop Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 579–598. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-579 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ken Hirschkop; Bakhtin Myths, or, Why We All Need Alibis. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1998; 9…
Mikhail Bakhtin
"This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin's work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popular-festive culture, an…
Mixed Feelings
Diaspora 8:1 1999 Mixed Feelings Ken Hirschkop University of Manchester Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress. Bruce Robbins. New York: New York University Press, 1999. At the very beginning of Feeling Global, Bruce Robbins remarks that "it is not a surprise or scandal that any given version of internationalism turns out to be local and conjunctural rather than universal" (7). Not a surprise, because it's axiomatic for recent thinking abou…
Mikhail Bakhtin
This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin's work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popularfestive culture, and …
Listening to the Other
Justice and Drama
No Rest for the Wicked
Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart (eds), Restless Cities, London, Verso, 2010; 344pp, 12.99 [pounds sterling] paperback; Susan S. Fainstein, The Just City, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2010; 232pp, 18.50 [pounds sterling] hardback It seemed like a good idea at the time: rather than review the collection Restless Cities on its own, I would twin it with something harder-headed--a careful, sober study of the politics of urban developm…
Language in 1910 (and after)
It is the autumn of 1910, and Ferdinand de Saussure has embarked on a series of lectures on general linguistics for the third time. He begins with the by now familiar point that the object of linguistics should not be the faculty which we all possess as individuals–the ‘faculty which can be called the faculty of articulated language’–but the social institution, the language system, that allows us to make use of this faculty. 1 But there is a prob…
Bakhtin as Praxis
The Bakhtin conference in Stockholm was the latest in a series that began in 1983, and although it had much in common with its predecessors – familiar faces, common themes and worries, a five-day f
Bakhtin contra darwinianos e cognitivistas
Este artigo se inicia com uma crítica à teoria da linguagem defendida pelos cientistas cognitivistas, tal como Steven Pinker (O instinto da linguagem), que descrevem, em termos gramaticais, a complexidade da linguagem humana. Suas explicações sobre a pragmática da linguagem, contudo, são demasiadamente simplistas. Pinker é visto como um idealista, em parte porque imagina o contexto de fala apenas enquanto informação compartilhada, negligenciando,…
Editing history
Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950
Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that range over the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and others, it shows how European intellectuals came to invest ‘language’ with extraordinary force, at a time when the social and political order of the continent was in question…
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin
In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts, Hirschkop explains Bakhtin's influential ideas, demonstrates their relevance and usefulness for literary and cultural analysis, and sets them in their historical context. In clear and concise language, H…
Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin
From physics to carnival
Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia
Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (13 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · History (8 works)