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Mikhail Bakhtin

1895 - 1975

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Bakhtin is the 174th most popular philosopher (down from 172nd in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Russia (up from 119th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Philosopher.

Mikhail Bakhtin is most famous for his work on the dialogic novel. The dialogic novel is a novel that is written in the form of a dialogue. He also wrote on the carnivalesque, which is a type of literature that has a festive atmosphere.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 174 out of 1,267. Before him are Adi Shankara, Ernst Cassirer, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Xun Kuang, Jakob Böhme, and Thomas Reid. After him are Posidonius, Marquis de Condorcet, Hippias, Jean Buridan, Ram Mohan Roy, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 15. Before him are Buster Keaton, Anna Freud, Ernst Jünger, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Nikolai Yezhov. After him are Richard Sorge, Wilm Hosenfeld, William Giauque, Max Horkheimer, Paul Éluard, and Paul Hindemith. Among people deceased in 1975, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 16. Before him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, Otto Skorzeny, Josephine Baker, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, and Edward Tatum. After him are Arnold J. Toynbee, George Paget Thomson, Saint-John Perse, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, and Paul Keres.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 107 out of 3,761. Before him are Lev Kamenev (1883), Alexander Alekhine (1892), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), and Nikolai Yezhov (1895). After him are Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Tokhtamysh (1342), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), and Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 3. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814). After him are Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), and P. D. Ouspensky (1878).

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