EN 3000 Lecture Notes - Mikhail Bakhtin, Postmodernity, Liberal Democracy
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Methodology corollary: we must avoid the tendency to see development as progress as linear teleological movement from a lower to a higher stage. Praxis [is located] between the theoretical and the practical as they are generally understood, and particularly as they are understood in modern philosophy. Dialogic (as per the oxford dictionary of literary terms) Characterized or constituted by the interactive, responsive nature of dialogue rather than by the single-mindedness of monologue. The term is important in the writings of russian theorists mikhail bakhtin, whose [work] contrasts the dialogic or polyphonic interplay of various characters" voices in dostoevsky"s novels with the. Monological" subordination of characters to the single view point of the author in. Rebellion against traditional forms of authority such as the church and the. Monarchy, and an attempt to establish the autonomy of the individual"s capability to reason. Rise of democratic political forms, based on the autonomy of the individual.
