Literature And Spirit: Essays On Bakhtin And His Contemporaries

Exploring Bakhtin's notions of spirit, responsibility, and dialogue, David Patterson takes his reader from the narrow arena of literary criticism to the larger realm of human living and human loving. True to the spirit of Bakhtin, he draws the Russian into a vibrant dialogue with other thinkers, including Foucault, Berdyaev, Gide, Lacan, Levinas, and Heidegger.