Vitalii L. Makhlin, DSc in Philosophy, PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky Avenue, 51/21, 117418, Moscow, Russia.
The article is an attempt to answer the old question in Bakhtin studies: “What did Bakhtin come from?”. His attitude, and locality in the 20 th century philosophy and humanities, seem have been motivated and determined, primarily, by the two scientific revolutions, philosophical and philological, that took place simultaneously in the 1910 s and the 1920 s both in Russia and the West. Yet the consequences of these two major “paradigm shifts” were, to a large degree, different. Thus, Bakhtin’ early philosophy of the “participated thinking” outlined between 1919 and 1923, could not – in contrast to the so-called “new thinking” In Europe – normally realize itself under the Soviet power. On the other hand, the “influence” of Bakhtinian ideas all over the world (since the 1960 s and up to the present), though it was and remains productive, has failed, I believe, to systematically describe both Bakhtin’s philosophical, scientific and cultural sources, as well as his true originality and actuality today. The task of the Bakhtin studies today, after the end of the New Times, it seems, among other things to make clear the ways Bakhtin responded to the challenges of those scientific revolutions.
scientific revolutions; end of the New Times; theoreticism; “participated thinking”; material aesthetics; dialog.
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Makhlin, V.L. “Mikhail Bakhtin as a Participant in the Scientific Revolutions of His Time”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 4(66), 2024, pp. 203–214. (In Russ.)
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