Bakhtin and the human sciences

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"Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. Contributors hail from communication studies, cultural studies, language studies, political science, psychology and sociology, and their essays' implications extend into still other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtin's work on dialogue, carnival, ethics, and everyday life, as well as the relationship between Bakhtin's ideas and those of other important social theorists. In a lively introduction Gardiner and Bell discuss Bakhtin's significance as a major intellectual figure and situate his ideas within current trends and developments in social theory." "Bakhtin and the Human Sciences will be of interest to students and researchers in social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology."--Jacket.