Description: Further DetailsTitle: Toward a Philosophy of the ActCondition: NewISBN-10: 029270805XEAN: 9780292708051ISBN: 9780292708051Publisher: University of Texas PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/01/1993Description: Rescued in 1972 from a storeroom in which rats and seeping water had severely damaged the fifty-year-old manuscript, this text is the earliest major work (1919-1921) of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin. Toward a Philosophy of the Act contains the first occurrences of themes that occupied Bakhtin throughout his long career. The topics of authoring, responsibility, self and other, the moral significance of "outsideness," participatory thinking, the implications for the individual subject of having "no-alibi in existence," the difference between the world as experienced in actions and the world as represented in discourse—all are broached here in the heat of discovery. This is the "heart of the heart" of Bakhtin, the center of the dialogue between being and language, the world and mind, "the given" and "the created" that forms the core of Bakhtin's distinctive dialogism. A special feature of this work is Bakhtin's struggle with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Put very simply, this text is an attempt to go beyond Kant's formulation of the ethical imperative. mci will be important for scholars across the humanities as they grapple with the increasingly vexed relationship between aesthetics and ethics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 10mmAuthor: M. M. BakhtinContributor: Vadim Liapunov (Contributions by), Michael Holquist (Edited by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: University of Texas Press Slavic SeriesItem Weight: 227gTopic: Arts & PhotographyRelease Year: 1993 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Toward a Philosophy of the Act
Title: Toward a Philosophy of the Act
ISBN-10: 029270805X
EAN: 9780292708051
ISBN: 9780292708051
Release Date: 10/01/1993
Release Year: 1993
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Michael Holquist (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Arts & Photography
Number of Pages: 132 Pages
Publication Name: Toward a Philosophy of the Act
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Communication Studies, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 1993
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: M. M. Bakhtin
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Series: University of Texas Press Slavic Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
