Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (/bʌxˈtn/ bukh-TEEN; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s.

Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin (1920)
Born16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895
Died7 March 1975(1975-03-07) (aged 79)
Alma materOdessa University (no degree)
Petrograd Imperial University
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionRussian philosophy
InstitutionsMordovian Pedagogical Institute
Main interests
literary theory, literary criticism
Notable ideas
Heteroglossia, dialogism, chronotope, carnivalesque, polyphony
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