Bakhtin and Cohen: The First Stages in Building the Philosophical System
- Authors: Dvorkin I.1
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Affiliations:
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Issue: Vol 25, No 3 (2021): HERMANN COHEN'S PHILOSOPHY AND THE FATE OF CRITICAL IDEALISM
- Pages: 436-456
- Section: HERMANN COHEN'S PHILOSOPHY AND THE FATE OF CRITICAL IDEALISM
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2313-2302/article/view/325012
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-3-436-456
- ID: 325012
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Abstact. Although it is generally known that M.M. Bakhtin viewed himself as primarily a philosopher and not a philologist, the overwhelming majority of studies of his work belong to literary criticism. The purpose of this article, relying on the oral testimony of Bakhtin himself and his philosophical texts written in the Nevel-Vitebsk period (1919-1924), is to restore the origin of his philosophical sources and the content of his philosophical ideas of this period. The main idea is the concept of moral philosophy as a philosophical system, whose main subject is participative thinking and an answerable act as an event of being. One of the most important sources of these ideas was probably the philosophy of Neo-Kantianism represented by the teachings of H. Cohen. The article provides four examples of Bakhtin's continuity in relation to the Marburg philosopher - the idea of an answerable act concerning another person as the source of a human's self-consciousness and personal integrity, the idea of a correlative relationship between a person and his neighbor as an expression of a caring participatory being, the idea of distinguishing a moral attitude from an ethical-legal one and the idea of the philosophical system, whose subject is the process of interpersonal relations. In this case, the system consists not only in the integrity of the object but also in its openness. Revealing the continuity of Bakhtin's philosophical ideas regarding Cohen leads to a better understanding of these ideas and Bakhtin's originality of their development. It is also fruitful to compare the perception of Cohen's ideas by Bakhtin and their reception by another philosopher of dialogue, F. Rosenzweig.
About the authors
Ilya Dvorkin
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Author for correspondence.
Email: idvorkin@mail.ru
Director of the Educational Programs at International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 9190501, IsraelReferences
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