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Also known as Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin

Russian intellectual and philosopher

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Mikhail Bakhtin was a male philosopher, linguist, writer, and literary critic born in Oryol in 1895. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and the Soviet Union. Bakhtin worked within the field of philosophy and was associated with Western philosophy and contemporary philosophy. He was educated at Saint Petersburg State University and later employed by Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University. His native language was Russian, which he also used for writing.

Bakhtin died in Moscow on 7 March 1975 and was buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery. His notable work includes the concept of polyphony. He was influenced by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Nietzsche. His published works include *Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics*, *Sanat ve Sorumluluk*, *Rabelais and His World*, and *The Unknown Bakhtin*.

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  • Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
  • Sanat ve Sorumluluk
  • Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Rabelais and His World
  • The Unknown Bakhtin

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Instance of
human
Given name
Mikhail
Gender
male
Citizenship
Soviet Union
Place of birth
Oryol
Place of death
Moscow
Occupation
art theorist
Languages spoken
Russian
Notable work
polyphony
Field of work
philosophy
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Mikhail bakhtin.jpg
Residence
Russia
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Mikhail Bakhtin
date of birth
1895-11-16
date of death
1975-03-07
place of burial
Vvedenskoye Cemetery
writing language
Russian
influenced by
Friedrich Nietzsche
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name in native language
Михаил Бахтин
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Encyclopedic overview

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (/ˈbɑːxtɪn/; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s.

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