{"product_id":"mikhail-bakhtin-an-aesthetic-for-democracy-9780198159605","title":"Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtins work. Using recent Russian scholarship  Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new  more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtins work  Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language  literary history  popular festive culture  and the phenomenology of everyday life revolved around a lifelong search for a new kind of modern ethical culture. A detailed examination of the major works reveals the careful interweaving of philosophical and historical argument which makes Bakhtin at once so compelling and so frustrating a writer. Hirschkop treats Bakhtin not as a metaphysician or a philosopher for the ages  but as a writer inevitably drawn into the historical conflicts produced by a modernizing and democratizing Europe. As a consequence  Bakhtin becomes a more sober but also more original writer  with a striking contribution to make to the definition of the democratic project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652927512629,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198159609","price":76.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198159605.jpg?v=1781853296","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mikhail-bakhtin-an-aesthetic-for-democracy-9780198159605","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}