Between Philosophy and Literature - Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject

Zusatztext " Between Philosophy and Literature is profoundly interesting . . . [I]ts vision of a better way to live is genuinely persuasive . . . The chapters in which Bakhtin is compared to Bergson! Merleau-Ponty and Lévinas are particularly well-achieved and show how the examination of a concrete! historically situated! and creative self became a sustained philosophical concern in the 20th century." Informationen zum Autor Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan is Professor of English at the University of Haifa, Israel. Klappentext Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan is Professor of English at the University of Haifa, Israel. Zusammenfassung This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences.

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• Authors: Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Professor of English Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Professor of English Daphna (Univ Erdinast-Vulcan
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9780804785839
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8583-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day