A provocative essay on the relationship between communism, philosophy and language.
The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism,' 'marxism,' 'prosaics,' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these posit…
The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism, ' 'marxism, ' 'prosaics, ' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these po…
The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism, ' 'marxism, ' 'prosaics, ' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these po…
The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism, ' 'marxism, ' 'prosaics, ' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these po…
The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism, ' 'marxism, ' 'prosaics, ' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these po…
"The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and beha…