Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words

by Michael Gardiner (editor), Michael Mayerfeld Bell (Editor)

Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin′s thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays′ implications extend into other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtin′s work on dialogue, carnival, ethics and everyday life, as well as the relationship between Bakhtin′s ideas and those of other important social theorists. In a lively introduction Gardiner and Bell discuss Bakhtin′s significance as a major intellectual figure and situate his ideas within current trends and developments in social theory.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He has published on modern Scottish cultural history, post-British cultures, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the cultural politics of nuclear disarmament. His books include The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (2004), From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical Theory since 1960 (2007) and At the Edge of Empire: The Life of Thomas B. Glover (2008).