The Shock of the Old: Mikhail Bakhtin's Contributions to the Theory of Time and Alterity
- 1 January 1998
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
The word does not enter the utterance from a dictionary, but from life, from utterance to utterance. The following chapter has several objectives. 2 Its primary aim is to support a reading of Mikhail Bakhtin's later writings as indicating a profound departure from conventional ways of thinking in the human sciences; a related aim is to suggest that a full appreciation of this reorientation depends upon an understanding of Bakhtin's dialogism as an ethics of alterity (or heterology); a third objective is to argue that the ‘philosophical anthropological’ horizon of Bakhtin's thought can ...Keywords
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