In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding—in time, in space, in culture. For one cannot even really see one's own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can be seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space, and because they are others.
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understandin… - Mikhail Bakhtin
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understandin…
- Mikhail Bakhtin
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day… - Mikhail Bakhtin
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day…
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing co… - Mikhail Bakhtin
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing co…
The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is… - Mikhail Bakhtin
The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is…
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradi… - Mikhail Bakhtin
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradi…
Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the p… - Mikhail Bakhtin
Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the p…
The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self. - Mikhail Bakhtin
The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his … - Mikhail Bakhtin
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his …
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. - Mikhail Bakhtin
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.
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