| Acknowledgments | p. 9 |
| Abbreviations | p. 10 |
| Translators' Note | p. 17 |
| Contributors | p. 18 |
| Introduction | p. 23 |
| Face to Face: Bakhtin's Programme and the Architectonics of Being-as-Event in the Twentieth Century | p. 45 |
| Bakhtin, Philosopher and Sociologist | p. 54 |
| The Idea of the Other in Rene Descartes's Meditations: A Hermeneutic Investigation into the History of Philosophy | p. 68 |
| Bakhtin, Marx and Worker Representation: An Architectonics of Answerability | p. 81 |
| Mikhail Bakhtin and the Philosophical Problems of Historical Studies in Russia | p. 93 |
| Bakhtin and Warburg: Elective Affinities in Dialogic Cultural Studies | p. 103 |
| Bakhtin and Rosenstock-Huessy: 'Absolute Need of Love' versus 'Dative Thinking' | p. 118 |
| After the Expulsion of the Author: Bakhtin as an Answer to Poststructuralism | p. 131 |
| Ethics of Difference: Bakhtin's Early Writings and Feminist Theories | p. 142 |
| Bakhtin and Kristeva: Grotesque Body, Abject Self | p. 160 |
| Self and Other in Bakhtin and in the Non-classical Psychology of Lev Vygotskii | p. 175 |
| The Carnival without Laughter | p. 185 |
| The Creative History of Bakhtin's Rabelais | p. 196 |
| Bakhtin's Carnival and Oral Culture | p. 203 |
| To Cry, Laugh and Understand: Notes of a Russian Folk Culture Researcher after Bakhtin | p. 214 |
| The Concept of the Generic Word: Bakhtin and the Russian Formalists | p. 233 |
| Bakhtin and the Epic Chronotope | p. 254 |
| Bakhtin, Lukacs and German Romanticism: The Case of Epic and Irony | p. 273 |
| Epic and Novel in George Eliot | p. 299 |
| Bakhtin versus Rhetoric? | p. 311 |
| Sociology and Dialogics: Pierre Bourdieu, Mikhail Bakhtin and the Critique of Formalist Aesthetics | p. 329 |
| Bakhtin and Derrida: Drama and the Phoneyness of the Phone | p. 347 |
| A Bakhtinian Approach to Speech in the Teaching of Writing | p. 366 |
| The Discourse(s) of Literature and the Law | p. 372 |
| Index | p. 386 |
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