Vision of the Other

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
Literary Writing

This article describes how the pathways and modalities through which self-consciousness and self-valuation are reached are closely interdependent with the vision of others. But the vision of the other can never be known directly by any one of us, not even in the other's presence: even when I am in front of the gaze of the other, the other is always the other-for-me. Neither studies of the psychological or psychoanalytical orders, nor those conducted in the sphere of philosophical reflection oriented autonomously from other spheres can contribute to a semiotics of the image of self as this is construed interpreting the signs of the vision of the other. Literary writing above all can contribute in this sense. The Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin resorts to literature, verbal art for his semiotics and philosophy of language and is often interpreted mistakenly as a literary critic precisely because of this. In this framework, he analyses the signs forming one's own image of self for each one of us, in the interlacement between I-for-myself, the other-for-me, I-for-the-other.

The Trump carnival: popular appeal in the age of misinformation

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Gaufman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Francois Rabelais ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
The Core ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
Polar Opposite ◽  
Core Characteristics

This article argues that a Russian analytical paradigm of carnival culture can help explain the successful presidential campaign of President Donald J. Trump. Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin developed the notion of carnival culture while analyzing Francois Rabelais’ work and its connection to the popular culture of Renaissance. Carnival ethos stood in opposition to the ‘official’ and ‘serious’ church sanctioned and feudal culture, by bringing out folklore and different forms of folk laughter that Bakhtin denoted as carnival. Carnival culture with its opposition to the official buttoned-up discourse is supposed to be polar opposite, distinguished by anti-ideology and anti-authority, in other words, anti-establishment – the foundation of Trump’s appeal to his voters. This article examines the core characteristics of carnival culture that defined Trump’s presidential campaign from the start.

Threads of Transmission in Muḥammad Barrāda’s Luʿbat al-nisyān

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Hoda El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Narrative Time ◽  
The One ◽  
Critical Writings

Literary critic and novelist Muḥammad Barrāda’s (b.1938) experimental 1987 Luʿbat al-Nisyān [the Game of Forgetting] is considered the Arabic postmodernist novel par excellence. The “nuṣ riwāʾī” [novelistic text] oscillates between historical, narrative, and meta-narrative time, as well as between diegetic and meta-textual narrators. Rather than aligning its authorial decentering and rhizomatic narrative structure with the collapsing of theological discourse as a totalizing force, this chapter reads Luʿbat al-Nisyān through Qurʾanic narratology and intertextuality. It situates the novel, on the one hand, in relation to Barrāda’s extensive critical writings on literary experimentation [tajrīb] and translation of Mikhail Bakhtin. On the other, it theorizes the work through narrative and formal modes and inflected by the Qurʾan—such as iltifāt, or rhetorical code-switching. Moreover, Luʿbat al-Nisyān’s use of multiple narrative perspectives and genealogies critically interrogates the hermeneutical practices surrounding the documentation, verification, and transmission of the apostolic tradition of hadith.

scholarly journals Ética e pesquisa: o compromisso com o discurso do outro / Ethics and Research: the commitment with the other’s discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solange Jobim e Souza ◽  
Cíntia De Souza Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Ethical Commitment ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Way

ResumoO objetivo deste artigo é discutir o ato de pesquisar em ciências humanas, tendo como foco a produção escrita. Assim sendo, buscamos definir o que entendemos por escrever com o outro, a partir do pesquisar com. O que está em pauta é uma postura metodológica, que tem como referência a filosofia da linguagem de Mikhail Bakhtin, cujo fundamento é assumir o interlocutor da pesquisa como parceiro e coautor. O compromisso ético com o discurso do outro tem como premissa os conceitos de dialogismo e alteridade para iluminar o encontro com o outro no campo e, posteriormente, na escrita do texto. Esse modo de atuar instaura alguns questionamentos éticos, tal como a exigência do anonimato, e problematiza a forma como o consentimento livre e esclarecido é tratado na pesquisa. Em síntese, narrar uma pesquisa não é só registrar os acontecimentos, mas consiste em um trabalho político de afirmação de algumas verdades em detrimento de outras.Palavras-chave: ética; dialogismo; alteridade; escrever com; pesquisar com. AbstractThis article discusses the act of research in Human Sciences which focuses on the production of writing. Thus, starting from the conceptual foundation of researching with, we seek to define what we mean by writing with the other. What is at stake is a methodological approach which accepts the interlocutor of research as partner and co-author, an approach based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language. The ethical commitment to the other’s discourse is premised on the concepts of dialogism and alterity to illuminate the encounter with the other in the field and, subsequently, in the written text. This way of working poses ethical questions—such as conditions of anonymity—and problematizes the way in which consent is accorded and treated in the research. In short, relating research findings is not just about recording events. It consists in the affirmation of certain truths at the expense of others as political activity.Keywords: ethics; dialogism; alterity; writing with, researching with.

scholarly journals Dialog zgody jako neoretoryczny projekt Bachtina

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiupa Walerij Igoriewicz Tiupa Walerij Igoriewicz
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Russian Philosopher

The article is dedicated to the idea of dialogism in the philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin. The author assumes that the dialogism of this Russian philosopher of ideas and literary critic is presented in a new light as a clearly valid intention in humanistic thinking. The focus is particularly turned towards the notion of the “dialogue of agreement”. The author examines various communication strategies (of submission, tolerance, convergence). Moreover, attention is drawn to the non-authoritarian, trans-- hierarchical types of resultative communication which leads to the convergence of awareness. The dialogic relation of agreement is perceived as the ultimate goal of every dialogue.

scholarly journals The Grotesque in Frankenstein in Baghdad: Between Humanity and Monstrosity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-106
Author(s):  
Rawad Alhashmi
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Political Thinker ◽  
The Grotesque

This paper analyzes Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018) with a special emphasis on the grotesque bodily images of the monster, the novel’s exploration of justice, and the question of violence. I draw on the theoretical framework of the Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), the ethics philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995), and the German-American philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt (1906–1975). Saadawi’s unnamed monster, “The Whatsitsname,” comes into being via an accidental if honorably intentioned act, when the main character, Hadi, compiles remnant corpses that he finds in the streets of Bagdad into one body with the aim of conducting “a proper burial” in order to dignify the dead. Interestingly, while the monster is the enemy in the eyes of the Iraqi government, he is a savior for the ordinary people— their only hope of putting an end to the violence and achieving justice. In this paper, I argue that Saadawi draws on the metaphor of Frankenstein’s monster not only to capture the dystopian mood in post-2003 Baghdad, but also to question the tragic realities, and the consequence of war, as well as the overall ramification of colonialism. In addition, Saadawi’s embodiment of the metaphor of Frankenstein’s monster actualizes a new literary role for Frankenstein in literature—the representation of the Other:  In this instance, the entire Iraqi community is literary represented in Frankenstein’s body. Of equal importance, is the fragmented nature of his body, which is literally compiled of different body parts from different people, perhaps symbolizing the urgent need for unity in Iraq.

scholarly journals Dialogue, responsibility and literary writing: Mikhail Bakhtin and his Circle

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (213) ◽  
pp. 307-343
Author(s):  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Writing

AbstractMikhail Bakhtin cannot be discussed without discussing his friends and collaborators forming the Bakhtin Circle. The name Bakhtin itself announces a polyphony of different voices and viewpoints, internally to Bakhtin’s own voice and externally, all evidencing the word’s capacity for dialogism and otherness, the possibility of cohabitation and interference among different voices in the same word, the propensity for participative listening, ultimately the inevitability of responsiveness/responsibility toward the other, that is, the other’s singularity. The name “Bakhtin” or, better, the expression “Bakhtin Circle,” offers a concrete perspective for a world constructed in terms of multiplicity, diversity, and hospitality toward the other. This essay presents some characteristic aspects of Bakhtinian philosophy, keeping account of the writings collected in the 2014 bilingual volume Opere 1919–1930, presented by the renowned Italian Bakhtin scholar Augusto Ponzio.

The Politics of Presence: Voice, Deity Possession, and Dilemmas of Development Among Tibetans in the People's Republic of China

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene E. Makley
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Central State ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Party Secretary ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The 1950S

AbstractTaking inspiration from linguistic anthropological approaches to the work of the Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), this article uses a Bakhtinian perspective on voice as contested presence to analyze the post-Mao revival of mountain deity possession practices among Tibetans in China's northwestern province of Qinghai. I respond to recent work that suggests that state-led development processes have intensified grassroots contests over the moral sources of authority and legitimacy in China, by contrasting the ambivalent voices of an urbanizing village's Tibetan Party secretary with those of the village's deity medium, during a mid-2000s village conflict. The conflict underscored a crisis of authority or moral “presence” among Tibetans under intensifying central state-led development pressures that for many carried forward the disenfranchisement of Tibetans that started in the 1950s.

“My Power is in My Infirmity”: Illness and Death of Yu.F. Samarin

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 412-431
Author(s):  
Svetlana I. Skorokhodova
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
The Face

This article is devoted to the insufficiently known topic of the disease and death of Y. F. Samarin, a great Russian philosopher, ascetic and warrior, politician and scientist. On the basis of the extensive archival materials the author of the article presents the events panorama that allows to reconstruct certain fragments of Samarin’s life. According to the author, the strongest aspects of Samarin’s personality, supported by his belief in bodily resurrection, were revealed in the face of bodily affliction and death. His love for congenial people, relatives, and Russia dominated all the other feelings of the philosopher both during his life and at the time of his departure. The article shows that something mysterious and undisclosed still remains in Samarin s death.

Domesticated mammoths: Mythic and material in Nenets verbal tradition on ya’ xora

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Lukin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

AbstractThis article discusses language materialities and the Otherworld through the findings of mammoth remains and text-artifacts representing Nenets verbal art. The remains and verbal art are read together as a network of mythic knowledge that forms a semiotic whole, where different signs interact and create potentials for new significations. The article aims to open up a web of relations in which materialities of differing ages and durabilities meet and affect each other through their semiotic potentialities. The materialities operate on several levels of signification, ranging from basic metaphors for mammoths to larger regimes that organize the signification. Consequently, mythic knowledge concerns worlds that are, on the one hand, imperceptible but, on the other, sensible through narration and imagination in terms of materialities. The key material elements of the mythic knowledge are tainted by the narration, such that they cannot be considered without the mythic qualities. In addition, the knowledge concerning the world affects Nenets rituals and ways of dwelling.

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