Books by Mikhail Bakhtin
“Derrida came from the tradition of phenomenology in France. But he also drew on a long tradition of critical reading and dialogic imagination. Bakhtin was a Russian theorist, who wrote a lot in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s. He was more or less unheard of in the West until after his death in 1975. He was very interested in the way that language functions as a type of dialogue. He saw fiction as the epitome of this. In fiction, there are various voices going on, the voices of the characters, the voice of novelistic technique, the voice of the narrator, the voice of the time—all of these dialogic things were clashing with each other.” Read more...
The best books on Deconstruction
Peter Salmon, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Mikhail Bakhtin were recommended
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Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida & translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
by Mikhail Bakhtin & translated by Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson -
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Jacques Derrida Circumfession
by Geoffrey Bennington & Jacques Derrida -
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The Newly Born Woman
by Catherine Clément, Hélène Cixous & translated by Betsy Wing -
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"53 Days"
by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
The best books on Deconstruction, recommended by Peter Salmon
The best books on Deconstruction, recommended by Peter Salmon
For the general reader deconstruction has a bad reputation. It is seen as over-complicating, arcane and wilfully obscure—but as its founding genius Jacques Derrida pointed out, “If things were simple, word would have gotten around.” Here Peter Salmon, author of an excellent new biography of Derrida, chooses five books to get you started on the text and everything inside it.
