PHILOSOPHER

Mikhail Bakhtin

1895 - 1975

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin ( bukh-TEEN; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Bakhtin has received more than 1,187,809 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Mikhail Bakhtin is the 172nd most popular philosopher (down from 160th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Russia (down from 107th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Philosopher.

Mikhail Bakhtin is most famous for his work on the dialogic novel. The dialogic novel is a novel that is written in the form of a dialogue. He also wrote on the carnivalesque, which is a type of literature that has a festive atmosphere.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 172 out of 1,267. Before him are Jean Baudrillard, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, Cesare Beccaria, Athanasius Kircher, and Al-Ash'ari. After him are Claude Adrien Helvétius, Xun Kuang, Ernest Renan, Proclus, Karl Kautsky, and Posidonius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 14. Before him are Richard Sorge, Ernst Jünger, Wilm Hosenfeld, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, and Anna Freud. After him are Paul Éluard, J. Edgar Hoover, Levi Eshkol, Henrik Dam, Dolores Ibárruri, and Nikolai Yezhov. Among people deceased in 1975, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 15. Before him are Otto Skorzeny, Haile Selassie, Josephine Baker, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. After him are Saint-John Perse, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Robert Robinson, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 119 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Kolchak (1874), Olga of Kiev (890), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878), Ivan V of Russia (1666), and Sergey Kirov (1886). After him are Feodor III of Russia (1661), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), False Dmitry I (1581), Joseph Brodsky (1940), and Mikhail Lermontov (1814).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 3. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814). After him are Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Ivan Ilyin (1883), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), Yuri Lotman (1922), and Sergei Bulgakov (1871).

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