Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin: Experience and Form

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by  Tim Beasley-Murray (auth.)

Mikhail Bakhtin and
Walter Benjamin
Experience and Form
Tim Beasley-Murray
Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin
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Mikhail Bakhtin and
Walter Benjamin
Experience and Form
Tim Beasley-Murray
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Contents
NoteonAbbreviationsandReferences viii
Introduction 1
1 HabitandTradition 19
2 Experience 48
3 Language 88
4 Totalities 122
Notes 153
Bibliography 196
Index 209
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Note on Abbreviations and
References
ReferencestomosttextsbyBakhtinandVoloshinovaretotheEnglish
translations of their works and are included in parentheses in the text.
Thefollowingsystemofabbreviationsisused:
AH Bakhtin, M. M., ‘Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity’,
in Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by
M.M.Bakhtin, ed. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov,
trans.VadimLiapunov,AustinTX,1990.
DI Bakhtin, M. M., The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by
M.M.Bakhtin, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson
andMichaelHolquist,AustinTX,1981.
DP Bakhtin, M. M., Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, ed. and
trans.CarylEmerson,Manchester,1984.
MPL Vološinov, V. N., Marxism and the Philosophy of Language,
ed. and trans. Ladislav Matejka and I. R. Titunik, London,
1973.
Rabelais Bakhtin, M. M., Rabelais and his World, trans. Hélène
Iswolsky,BloomingtonIN,1984.
SG Bakhtin,M.M.,SpeechGenresandOtherLateEssays,ed.Caryl
Emerson and Michael Holquist, trans. Vern W. McGee,
AustinTX,1986.
TPA Bakhtin, M. M., Toward a Philosophy of the Act, ed. Vadim
Liapunov and Michael Holquist, trans. Vadim Liapunov,
AustinTX,1993.
Other works by Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle are referred to in the
normalfashion.
References to Benjamin are to the German edition of his writings
as well as to English translations, except in the few cases where no
published translation exists. Most references are also given in paren-
thesesinthetextandareabbreviatedasfollows:
GS Benjamin, W., Gesammelte Schriften, 7 vols, ed. Rolf
Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhäuser, Frankfurt/
Main,1974.
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NoteonAbbreviationsandReferences ix
Briefe Benjamin, W., Briefe, 2 vols, ed. Gershom Scholem and
TheodorW.Adorno,Frankfurt/Main,1993.
SW Benjamin, W., Selected Writings, 4 vols, ed. Michael
W.Jenningsandothers,trans.HowardEiland,RodneyLiving-
stoneandothers,CambridgeMA,1996–2003.
OGTD Benjamin,W.,TheOriginofGermanTragicDrama,trans.John
Osborne,London,1977.
AP Benjamin, W., The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and
KevinMcLaughlin,CambridgeMA,1999.
Whilstthetranslationsgivenfollowthepublishedversionsforthemost
part, occasionally I have made slight modifications. I indicate where
suchmodificationshavetakenplace.