Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin: Experience and Form

ISBN-13: 9780230535350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 226 str.

Tim Beasley-Murray

Opis

This first comparative study of philosophers and literary theorists Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin examines the relationship between the experience of the modern world and the forms that we use to make sense of that experience. Analyzing their views on art, habit, tradition, and language, this comparative study results in a radical reconsideration of received views about thinkers as well as in a reconsideration of the modernity that Bakhtin and Benjamin lived in and that we continue to inhabit now.

Recenzje

'Tim Beasley-Murray happily possesses the philosophical sophistication and historical knowledge to undertake a serious study, and has produced a thoughtful reading of both his subjects, in the process demonstrating what almost seems ineluctability in their dialogue...This is...an important book that should be read not only by those with a professional interest in Benjamin or Bakhtin, but by all serious workers in the humanities...and anyone else concerned to better understand our present situatedness in the dilemma of the modern.' Michael Holquist, Yale University, SEER

Spis treści

Introduction Habit and Tradition Experience Language Totalities Notes Bibliography

O autorze

TIM BEASLEY-MURRAY is Lecturer in Slovak Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK. He has published articles on Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory, and Czech, Habsburg, and Slovak literature.