Bakhtin and the Human Sciences

Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtins thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays implications extend into other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtins work on dialogue, carnival, ethics and everyday life, as well as the relationship between Bakhtins ideas and those of other important social theorists. In a lively introduction Gardiner and Bell discuss Bakhtins significance as a major intellectual figure and situate his ideas within current trends and developments in social theory.