Bakhtin : Ethics and Mechanics Hardcover – June 4, 2003 9780810116719

The early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, though also informed by Bakhtin’s later works of the early 1970s, the authors in this volume explore the human and prosaic dimensions of ethical and moral dilemmas, whether in the philosophical concerns of the Young Hegelians, the iconography and implicit doctrine of Christian redemption in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, in testimonial accounts of political martyrs in Latin America, or in the nationalist features of Russian Village Prose. Bakhtin’s thought exerted a profound, systemic influence on many areas of knowledge as they have been configured in the twentieth century and, as this volume amply demonstrates, promises to do the same for the twenty-first.