A groundbreaking collection of essays on the influential critic and philosopher

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic whose influence on a wide range of intellectual fields has only grown since his death, with his emphasis on dialogue and suspicion of systems having particularly resonance in literary studies and linguistics. This collection of essays, all originally published in the the journal Critical Inquiry, explores his literary and linguistic theory and its implications for theory in general and critical practice. 

In addition to the critical essays, this book includes previously untranslated excerpts from Bakhtin’s essays and notebooks.