Mikhail Bakhtin Quotes
- The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet taken…
- Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for…
- It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to…
- Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly…
- The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from…
- In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding—in…