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PHILOSOPHER

Mikhail Bakhtin

1895 - 1975

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin ( bukh-TEEN; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ 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 1,108,423 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Mikhail Bakhtin is the 160th most popular philosopher (down from 154th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Russia (down from 95th 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 160 out of 1,081Before him are Louis Althusser, Ernst Cassirer, Christian Wolff, Adam Weishaupt, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Max Stirner. After him are Padmasambhava, Cesare Beccaria, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Marshall McLuhan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 14Before him are Anna Freud, J. Edgar Hoover, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Wilm Hosenfeld, Nikolai Yezhov, and Ernst Jünger. After him are Max Horkheimer, Semyon Timoshenko, Amin al-Husseini, Paul Hindemith, Paul Éluard, and Dolores Ibárruri. Among people deceased in 1975, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 15Before him are Aristotle Onassis, Otto Skorzeny, Umm Kulthum, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. After him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Saint-John Perse, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 107 out of 3,262Before him are Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Sergey Kirov (1886), and Otto Wallach (1847). After him are Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Lev Kamenev (1883), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Mikhail Bakhtin ranks 3Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724) and Mikhail Bakunin (1814). After him are Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Yuri Lotman (1922), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Ivan Ilyin (1883), and Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700).