The Chronotope of Humanness : Bakhtin and Dostoevsky

  • Bakhtin and Dostoevsky shared the conviction that human life must be understood in terms of temporality. Both thinkers were obsessed with time’s relation to life as people experience it. For each, a rich sense of humanity demanded a chronotope of open time. In many respects, the views of Bakhtin and Dostoevsky coincide. Theologically speaking, one could fairly call them both heretics, as we shall see. Their differences reflect their different starting points. Bakhtin began with ethics, whereas Dostoevsky thought about life first and foremost in terms of psychology. For Bakhtin, any viable view of the world had first of all to give a rich meaning to moral responsibility. Dostoevsky could accept no view that was false to his sense of how the human mind thought and felt.

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Author:Gary Saul Morson
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-245638
URL:http://www.oapen.org/xtf/download?type=document&collection=oapen&docid=377572
ISBN:978-90-382-1563-1
Parent Title (English):Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope: reflections, applications, perspectives, Gent : Academia Press, 2010, ISBN : 978-90-382-1563-1 , S. 93-110
Publisher:Academia Press
Place of publication:Gent
Editor:Nele Bemong, Pieter Borghart, Michel De Dobbeleer, Kristoffel Demoen, Koen De Temmerman, Bart Keunen
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2010
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/04/03
Tag:Chronotopos
GND Keyword:Bachtin, Michail M.; Erzähltheorie; Dostoevskij, Fedor M.
Page Number:18
First Page:93
Last Page:110
HeBIS-PPN:381154726
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
BDSL-Klassifikation:03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.06.00 Literaturtheorie
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht