This means that I am conscious of how others are employing the same word (or concept); I ask myself, Am I capable of hearing the different “intonations” that different people give to the same word/concept? This is the fundamental question Bakhtin asks, in the most fundamental philosophical sense: Can I listen to difference with tolerance?
schopenhauer1 Do you know Bakhtin? — uncanni
This is the fundamental question Bakhtin asks, in the most fundamental philosophical sense: Can I listen to difference with tolerance? — uncanni
Bakhtin's point is that there are dialogic strategies which open a space for broader mutual understanding, and monologic strategies that shut down the possibility of responding. — uncanni
Next, I don’t think that Bakhtin intended to reduce his vision of the dialogic just to the literary, or imaginary world. Some critics propose that he discovered a new,Bakhtin's ideas about dialogism vs monologism. — uncanni
Bakhtin’s
project was about the universality of dialogic relations so that any monological
would be essentially dialogical. — Number2018
I started to understand your OP better. It looks like that based on Bakhtin’s essay on Epic vs Novel, you tried to reconstruct the central theme of Bakhtin’s philosophy. But, even if weIf you read his essay on Epic vs Novel, he establishes a clear opposition between the closed monological world view of the epic and the problematized and dialogic world view of the great novels. — uncanni
“The word, directed toward its object, enters a dialogically agitated and tension-filled environment of alien words, value judgments and accents, weaves in and out of compelx interrelationships, merges with some, recoils from others, itnersects with yet a third group: and all this may crucially shape discourse....The word is born in a dialogue as a living rejoinder within it; the word is shaped in dialogic interaction with an alien word that is already in the object.” — uncanni
Have borders between monological and dialogical become blurred and indiscernible? — Number2018
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