Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975).
Mikhail Bakhtin is a major critical theorist. See Boje's Grandfathers
and Grandmothers of Organization Study (main page). This web site
was created by Professor David M. Boje, March 11, 2004; Updated May 10 2004.
His writing is becoming incresingly influential in critical theory. To Marx,
Bakhtin's work is an amendment, substituting dialogic for dialectic. To work
with Bakhtin, you need to understand his life story, and how the many terms
he invented work together. Definitions are meant to apply the terms to organization
studies (more complete definitions are in the links that follow). As a special
feature, unique to this web site, I have created a special Bakhtinian Dictionary
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There are many good places to begin your study, to deepen your understanding
of the above list of Bakhtinian terms:
- Katica Kulavkova
page on Intertextuality - (Bakhtin/Volsinov) references
- Implications here for language systems
- The Bakhtin
Center - good site to get involved in current list discussions, find out
what is happening currently with Bakhtin's work
- The Bakhtin
Circle site will give you an introduction to how his thoughts and concepts
developed over time. Members of the original Bakhtin Circle included Matvei
Isaevich Kagan (1889-1937); Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev (1891-1938); Lev Vasilievich
Pumpianskii (1891-1940); Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinskii (1902-1944); Valentin
Nikolaevich Voloshinov (1895-1936) and others. This is an excellent site to
get a sense of how the Circle relates to Bakhtin's development as a critical
theorist.
- "During his imprisonment, Bakhtin began suffering health problems caused
by chronic osteomyelitis, a painful inflammation of the bone marrow, and while
his exile to the frozen isolation of Kazakhstan was no doubt severe, it undoubtedly
saved him from a certain death in prison...." Part
2 of Chapter 2 gives good grounding in heteroglossia and is difference
with polyglossia, and an introduction to chronotope. We use the terms quite
differently in organization studies.
- Narrative
Psychology site - Short, concise overview of Bakhtin, showing his relationship
to narrative therapy, to the idea that we are a community of storytellers,
and that some stories become dominating in our lives; how to liberate our
voice from more oppressive narratives.
- Some Bakhtin pages - quotes
for Dialectic Imagination; Discourse
in the Novel section of DI;
For more on Bakhtin in the Boje web library, see on line Narrative
Methods for Organizational and Communicaton Research
Send your Bakhtin papers to the http://scmoi.org
conference (standing conference for Management & Organization Inquiry)