Bakhtin chronotope and derrida temporization

While Emerson and HolquistвЂ™s вЂheteroglossiaвЂ™ (in The Dialogic Imagination) may be closer to the Russian term, TodorovвЂ™s translation is fully legitimate: a possible stress on the aspect of вЂlogosвЂ™ - thought, knowledge (as in вЂlogicвЂ™) as well as on the aspect of вЂlogosвЂ™ - word (as in вЂphilologyвЂ™) is meaningful given the global scope and implications of BakhtinвЂ™s ideas. In his writings on Bakhtin, Tzvetan Todorov (and subsequently American translators of TodorovвЂ™s books) translates вЂraznorechвЂ™eвЂ™, one of BakhtinвЂ™s cornerstone notions, as вЂhГ©tГ©rologieвЂ™ (heterology, science or knowledge of the Other)1. Only it is probably not cognizable to an individual. Moreover, the concepts of meaning and truth itself seem to be jeopardized here, since вЂњanswers to questions is what I call вЂmeaningsвЂ™вЂќ (Bakhtin).Nevertheless, Bakhtin never openly questions the fundamental values of knowledge and final truth his position may be summed up thus: В«The truth is out there. Thus, the end of dialogue, the silence remains as a dark shadow on the horizon of the meaningful discursive logic. The second is the irreducible Other, outside the possibility of adequate knowledge and thus potentially excluded from dialogue. First, the Other dominated and apprropriated by the subject, or Author, or Self in the dialogic relation - it is only a provisional Other. His approach to heterology (science or knowledge of the Other) is fundamental to analysis of such themes of his oeuvre as carnival (laughter), history, and economy of human existence.On a certain stage it appears, that two configurations may be distinguished in BakhtinвЂ™s conception of the Other. This article focuses on the relation to the Other - the underlying aspect of dialogism - in the works of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Bakhtin chronotope and derrida temporization