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
thinking, the implications for the individual subject of having
"no-alibi in existence," the difference between the world as
experienced in actions and the world as represented in
discourse--all are broached here in the heat of discovery. This is
the "heart of the heart" of Bakhtin, the center of the dialogue
between being and language, the world and mind, "the given" and
"the created" that forms the core of Bakhtin's distinctive
dialogism.
A special feature of this work is Bakhtin's struggle with the
philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Put very simply, this text is an
attempt to go beyond Kant's formulation of the ethical imperative.
mci will be important for scholars across the humanities as they
grapple with the increasingly vexed relationship between aesthetics
and ethics.
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