Materializing Bakhtin

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Appropriation in History

   • Craig Brandist, Galin Tihanov

   Pages 1-2

3. The World According to Globalization and Bakhtin

   • Peter Hitchcock

   Pages 3-19

4. Bakhtin’s Dialogism Reconsidered through Hegel’s ‘Monologism’: the Dialectical Foundation of Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Human Sciences

   • Jean-François Côté

   Pages 20-42

5. Culture, Form, Life: The Early Lukács and the Early Bakhtin

   • Galin Tihanov

   Pages 43-69

6. Bakhtin, Marxism and Russian Populism

   • Craig Brandist

   Pages 70-93

7. Memories of Nature in Bakhtin and Benjamin

   • Barry Sandywell

   Pages 94-118

8. ‘A Very Understandable Horror of Dialectics’: Bakhtin and Marxist Phenomenology

   • Michael Gardiner

   Pages 119-141

9. Looking Back on the Subject: Mead and Bakhtin on Reflexivity and the Political

   • Greg Nielsen

   Pages 142-163

10. Bakhtin and the Study of Popular Culture: Re-thinking Carnival as a Historical and Analytical Concept

    • Chris Humphrey

    Pages 164-172

11. What is Marxism in Linguistics?

    • Vladimir M. Alpatov

    Pages 173-193

12. Back Matter

    Pages 194-207

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This volume brings together nine essays by established and new scholars from Russia, Britain and North America to explore the historical contexts and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics.

• culture
• Georg Lukács
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• globalization
• Marxism
• social theory
• work

• University of Sheffield, UK

  Craig Brandist

• Merton College, University of Oxford, UK

  Galin Tihanov

CRAIG BRANDIST is HRB Research Fellow at the Bakhtin Centre and Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Sheffield University. He is the author of Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel and of numerous articles on the Bakhtin Circle, Russian literature and culture and intellectual history. He is currently working on a translation and critical electronic edition of the works of the Bakhtin Circle and a new critical introduction to their work.

GALIN TIHANOV works in the Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University. He holds doctorates from Sofia University and the University of Oxford and is the author of two books on Bulgarian literature, articles on comparative literature and the history of ideas, and a forthcoming book on Bakhtin and Lukács.

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