Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin (1920)
Born	16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 Oryol, Russian Empire
Died	7 March 1975(1975-03-07) (aged 79) Moscow, Russian SFSR
Alma mater	Odessa University (no degree) Petrograd Imperial University
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Russian philosophy
Institutions	Mordovian Pedagogical Institute
Main interests	literary theory, literary criticism
Notable ideas	Heteroglossia, dialogism, chronotope, carnivalesque, polyphony

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (/bʌxˈtiːn/ bukh-TEEN; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March^[2] 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. 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.