Inspired by Bakhtin : : Dialogic Methods in the Humanities / / Matthias Freise.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Freise, Matthias,
• MitwirkendeR: Andrianova, Maria,; Boháček, Kryštof,; Freise, Matthias,; Kaczmarczyk, Michal,; Krippendorff, Klaus,; Plassmann, Reinhard,; Wang, Xiaojing,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)

In seven essays, this book offers a tour de force through those seven disciplines in the humanities that lately underwent a fundamental transformation. In order to apply "exact" scientific methods, these disciplines turned away from their very subjects- the understanding of the relationship or a dialogue that underlies the phenomena they are supposed to investigate. The revisionist approach in this book, based on Mikhail Bakhtin's work, traces the search for common and specific grounds of the humanities, beginning with psychologism through hermeneutics and semiotics up to the present state of self-annihilation. As an alternative, the book seeks to define humanities as the examination of relationships, which offers an array of refreshing perspectives on each field discussed.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Internal Dialogism of Russian Postmodern Literature: Polyphony or Schizophrenia? -- Between Socrates and the Stranger: How Dialogic are Plato's Dialogues? -- The Dialogic Method in Literary History -- Towards a Dialogical Sociology -- Discourses in the Design of Cultural Artifacts -- Attachment Patterns in the Bi-Personal Field -- Voices in Image: A Methodological and Theoretical Approach to the Dialogic Image of the Other with the European Image of China as an Example -- List of Contributors -- Index