Strange Synchronies and Surplus Possibilities
Bakhtin on Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4207737 |
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| Authors | Gary Saul Morson (0009-0004-3095-1322, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 477-493 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2499720 |
| OpenAlex | W2324252063 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
We live forward, but we understand backward.-KierkegaardBakhtin must surely be regarded as the most remarkable modern thinker to examine time in narrative. For him, the problem was no mere exercise in literary theory. Rather, it was a way to examine ultimate questions-or in the Russian phrase, "accursed" questions-about human existence. In this respect, his work is representative of the Russian tradition, in which literature and criticism served as forms of-a skeptic would say, substitutes for-philosophy. In this Russian view, the task of philosophy is to examine the relation of ideas to the way people live. Novels are a supreme form of philosophy because, unlike the terribly thin accounts of life found in philosophical tracts, they offer a rich and "thick" description of human thinking and action
Action (physics · Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Phrase · Relation (database · Russian literature · Skepticism · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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