Northwestern University Press, 2001 eISBN: 978-0-8101-2061-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1824-9 | Paper: 978-0-8101-1825-6 Library of Congress Classification PG2947.B3B327 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 801.95092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The dimension of religion in the life and work of Bakhtin has been fiercely contested--and willfully ignored--by critics. Unique in its in-depth focus on this subject, Bakhtin and Religion brings together leading British, American, and Russian scholars to investigate the role of religious thought in shaping and framing Bakhtin's writings.
These essays provide an overview of Bakhtin's attitude toward religion in general and Russian Orthodoxy in particular, addressing topics ranging from how Bakhtin's religious ideas informed his linguistic and aesthetic theories to the idea of love in his secular and religious thought and to the religious component of Bakhtin's theory of laughter.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan M. Felch is an associate professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Paul J. Contino is an associate professor of humanities at Christ College, Valparaiso University. His work has appeared in the journals Studies in the Novel, Renascence, and Religion and Literature.
REVIEWS
"The essays in the present volume . . . are indispensable for any student of the modern scene." --Joseph Frank, Stanford University
"Mikhail Bakhtin's engagement with Christian ideas is given a thorough sounding in this exceptional collection of penetrating essays on a controversial topic that has dominated recent discussion in Bakhtin studies." --Amy Mandelker, editor of Bakhtin in Contexts: Across the Disciplines
"This insightful collection sheds floods of light on one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. It shows the deep sources of Bakhtin's dialogical philosophy in the spiritual and theological traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy. Against this background, we can begin to appreciate how radical was Bakhtin's break with the reductive, scientistic, and monological thrust of much Western philosophy." --Charles Taylor, McGill University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Paul J. Contino and Susan M. Felch
Introduction: A Feeling for Faith
Alan Jacobs
Bakhtin and the Hermeneutics of Love
Graham Pechey
Philosophy and Theology in "Aesthetic Activity"
Ruth Coates
The First and Second Adam in Bakhtin's Early Thought
Sergei Averintsev
Bakhtin, Laughter, and Christian Culture
Charles Lock
Bakhtin and the Tropes of Orthodoxy
Alexandar Mihailovic
Bakhtin's Dialogue with Russian Orthodoxy and Critique of Linguistic Universalism
Randall A. Poole
The Apophatic Bakhtin
Caryl Emerson
Afterword: Plenitude as a Form of Hope
Appendix: M. M. Bakhtin's Lectures and Comments of 1924-1925
Index
Notes on Contributors
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Northwestern University Press, 2001 eISBN: 978-0-8101-2061-7 Cloth: 978-0-8101-1824-9 Paper: 978-0-8101-1825-6
The dimension of religion in the life and work of Bakhtin has been fiercely contested--and willfully ignored--by critics. Unique in its in-depth focus on this subject, Bakhtin and Religion brings together leading British, American, and Russian scholars to investigate the role of religious thought in shaping and framing Bakhtin's writings.
These essays provide an overview of Bakhtin's attitude toward religion in general and Russian Orthodoxy in particular, addressing topics ranging from how Bakhtin's religious ideas informed his linguistic and aesthetic theories to the idea of love in his secular and religious thought and to the religious component of Bakhtin's theory of laughter.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan M. Felch is an associate professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Paul J. Contino is an associate professor of humanities at Christ College, Valparaiso University. His work has appeared in the journals Studies in the Novel, Renascence, and Religion and Literature.
REVIEWS
"The essays in the present volume . . . are indispensable for any student of the modern scene." --Joseph Frank, Stanford University
"Mikhail Bakhtin's engagement with Christian ideas is given a thorough sounding in this exceptional collection of penetrating essays on a controversial topic that has dominated recent discussion in Bakhtin studies." --Amy Mandelker, editor of Bakhtin in Contexts: Across the Disciplines
"This insightful collection sheds floods of light on one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. It shows the deep sources of Bakhtin's dialogical philosophy in the spiritual and theological traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy. Against this background, we can begin to appreciate how radical was Bakhtin's break with the reductive, scientistic, and monological thrust of much Western philosophy." --Charles Taylor, McGill University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Paul J. Contino and Susan M. Felch
Introduction: A Feeling for Faith
Alan Jacobs
Bakhtin and the Hermeneutics of Love
Graham Pechey
Philosophy and Theology in "Aesthetic Activity"
Ruth Coates
The First and Second Adam in Bakhtin's Early Thought
Sergei Averintsev
Bakhtin, Laughter, and Christian Culture
Charles Lock
Bakhtin and the Tropes of Orthodoxy
Alexandar Mihailovic
Bakhtin's Dialogue with Russian Orthodoxy and Critique of Linguistic Universalism
Randall A. Poole
The Apophatic Bakhtin
Caryl Emerson
Afterword: Plenitude as a Form of Hope
Appendix: M. M. Bakhtin's Lectures and Comments of 1924-1925
Index
Notes on Contributors
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