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Portrait of Mikhail Bakhtin

20th century · 1895–1975

Who influenced Mikhail Bakhtin?

Influences

Dialogism and the carnivalesque: meaning is born between voices, never in one.

Mikhail Bakhtin was influenced by Fyodor Dostoevsky. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

Who was Mikhail Bakhtin?

Mikhail Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics and literary theory. He took part in the Soviet debates on aesthetics in the 1920s, but his ideas became widely known only after Soviet scholars rediscovered him in the 1960s.

His work has since been taken up by Marxists, semioticians and structuralists and in fields from literary criticism and history to sociology and psychology.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Mikhail Bakhtin?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

Contemporaries of Mikhail Bakhtin

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Mikhail Bakhtin, with no direct line between them.

Mikhail Bakhtin by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
1
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
57 — #39 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Mikhail Bakhtin

Who influenced Mikhail Bakhtin?
Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Who did Mikhail Bakhtin influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Mikhail Bakhtin.
When did Mikhail Bakhtin live?
1895–1975. The map files Mikhail Bakhtin under the 20th century.
How rare is the Mikhail Bakhtin card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Mikhail Bakhtin in 57 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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