[Xmca-l] Re: Bakhtin/Hegel

[Andy Blunden]

Interesting.
I presume Martin is leading us to the chapter by Jean-Francois Cote on 
Bakhtin and Hegel. I would be interested in any serious consideration of 
Hegel's philosophy in connecion with dialogue. Hegel himself only deals 
with dialogue as a means of explicating philosophy among the Greeks 
(other than a line where he says every work of Art is a dialogue with 
the viewer who confronts it), but it is really impossible to read 
Hegel's dialectic as anything other than a line of development driven by 
dialogue. Many writers have followed this lead, but alas always taking 
dialogue as a process which lacks mediation, which as such cannot grasp 
Hegel's meaning.

But what I find wierd with Cote's article is that he seems to take it as 
read that the subject matter of Hegel's philosophy is *introspection* in 
the manner of Husserl's phenomenology. It just is very much *not* that. 
I find this "reading" of Hegel to be very destructive as not only is it 
very alien to the whole spirit of Hegel's philosophy, but allows every 
word in his writing to be misinterpreted in a subjectivist way which 
does much to make Hegel's writing even more inaccessible than it was to 
begin with.

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Martin John Packer wrote:
> Hi Greg,
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> You might find this useful:
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> <http://gazette-kreatiff.narod.ru/Materilizing-Bakhtin.pdf>
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> cheers
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> Martin
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