Correcting Kant
Bakhtin and Intercultural Interactions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11328459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wlad Godzich (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/303380 |
| OpenAlex | W2330860469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In all of the writings attributed to Bakhtin, indeed in all of the writings of the Bakhtin Circle, there are, to the best of my knowledge, only two references to the intercultural interactions that I mention in my subtitle. Both are exceedingly brief and have failed so far to elicit commentary from the burgeoning Bakhtin cottage industry. My aim in this paper is not so much to repair this oversight as it is to draw attention to the pivotal role played by these two remarks for an understanding of Bakhtin's rather ambitious project of rethinking the place and function of alterity in modernity and beyond. The first of the two remarks occurs without much fanfare in the essay on the epic and the novel which is collected in an English volume entitled The Dialogic Imagination. As is well known, Bakhtin contrasts the novel with all earlier genres by virtue of its relation to time: All the other genres, of which the epic is the emblem, are oriented toward what he calls the absolute past, whereas the novel is oriented toward the future. What
Linguistics · Linguistics and Education Research · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |