Using Russian scholarship, this text seeks to explode many myths surrounding Bakhtin and his work, and allows for a new, more historically acute sense of his ac... » 

Using Russian scholarship, this text seeks to explode many myths surrounding Bakhtin and his work, and allows for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. The author shows how Bakhtin's work revolved around a lifelong search for a new kind of modern ethical culture. «