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The early intellectual careers of Bakhtin and Herzen

towards a philosophy of the act

Ruth Coates

pp. 239-257

The article explores common ground shared by Alexander Herzen's `Dilettantism in Science' (1843) and Mikhail Bakhtin's `Towards a Philosophy of the Act' (1919) in the context of the Russian intellectual tradition as a whole. The primary aim is to explore in many ways, perhaps, unlikely affinities between two very different writers in the early stage of their careers. The secondary aim is to explore identifiably `Russian' motifs which may be said to call into question conventional typologies of Russian thought based on the progressive/conservative divide.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1023/A:1008736929796

Full citation:

Coates, R. (2000). The early intellectual careers of Bakhtin and Herzen: towards a philosophy of the act. Studies in East European Thought 52 (4), pp. 239-257.

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