Literature and Spirit Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries

"Patterson has had access to important untranslated texts from Bakhtin's earliest period. From this perspective he is able to see what others, reading a partial Bakhtin, have not seen: that Bakhtin is a rather conservative thinker, more a 'philosopher of life' with roots in the pre-Romantics than a Marxist or a semiotician in twentieth-century parlance." -- Philosophy and LiteraturePatterson, David is the author of 'Literature and Spirit Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries' with ISBN 9780813116471 and ISBN 0813116473.