Toward a Philosophy of the ACT

by Mikhail Bakhtin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029270805X
• ISBN13: 9780292708051
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"