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- Title
Chronotopic Innovation: The Dialogic Constitution of Experience in Bakhtin and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Authors
Dickson, David
- Abstract
Dickson argues that the problem of change in thought and mentality may be viewed as an issue of radically dialogic processes of the mind. A Kantian perspective on Bakhtin's theory of the chronotope makes possible interrogation of some of Bakhtin's most far-reaching claims about innovation. There are crucial limitations in dialogic theory as conceived by Bakhtin. Bakhtin's claims may be given greater validity through a combination of his socially framed theory of dialogue with a dialogics of the transcendental mind, based on a reading of the nineteenth-century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. In proposing that the mind may be seen as comprising socially as well as transcendentally created spaces of consciousness, Dickson contends that chronotopic constraints on movement in space are thus potentially liable to temporary cancellation or suspension, which allows for communication between mind and physical worlds without denial of the wisdom of philosophical anti-foundationalism.
- Publication
Dialogism: An International Journal of Bakhtin Studies, 2000, Issue 5/6, p65
- ISSN
1365-0637
- Publication type
Academic Journal