The Norms of Answerability: Social Theory Between Bakhtin and HabermasGreg M. Nielsen brings Mikhail Bakhtin s ethics and aesthetics into a dialogue with social theory that responds to the sense of ambivalence and uncertainty at the core of modern societies. Nielsen situates a social theory between Bakhtin s norms of answerability and Jürgen Habermas s sociology, ethics, and discourse theory of democracy in a way that emphasizes the creative dimension in social action without reducing explanation to the emotional and volitional impulse of the individual or collective actor. Some of the classical sources that support this mediated position are traced to Alexander Vvedenskij s and Georg Simmel s critiques of Kant s ethics, Hermann Cohen s philosophy of fellowship, and Max Weber s and George Herbert Mead s theories of action. In the shift from Bakhtin s theory of interpersonal relations to a dialogic theory of societal events that defends the bold claim that law and politics should not be completely separated from the specificity of ethical and cultural communities, a study of citizenship and national identity is developed. |
Contents
THEORY ON THE BORDERS OF SOCIOLOGY | 3 |
The State of Bakhtin Studies | 6 |
Creativity and General Sociological Theory | 13 |
The Bridge between Culture and the Political | 20 |
DIVERSITY AND TRANSCULTURAL ETHICS | 25 |
Disciplinary Orientations | 29 |
Decentered Subjects and Critiques of Discourse Ethics | 33 |
The Creative Side of the Normative | 38 |
Cohens Discovery of Man as Fellowman | 104 |
Influences and Steps | 108 |
ACTION AND EROS KANTWEBERBAKHTIN | 111 |
Duties Toward the Body Concerning the Sexual Impulse | 112 |
Action Ethics and Eros | 114 |
The Fourth Postulate and BodyDialogue | 119 |
REFLEXIVE SUBJECTIVITY MEADBAKHTIN | 127 |
Philosophical and Disciplinary Orientations | 129 |
The Normative Side of Creativity | 44 |
Between the Creativity and Normativity of the Act | 47 |
COMMUNICATIVE ACTION OR DIALOGUE? | 51 |
Communicative Action and Moral Development | 52 |
The Limits of Universal Reason | 58 |
Mixing the Word and Style | 61 |
THE WORLD OF OTHERS WORDS | 69 |
Bakhtin and Voloshinov on the Subject of the Utterance | 71 |
Social and Ethical Worlds of Dialogue in Dostoevsky | 74 |
The Frankfurt Tradition | 79 |
Habermass Break | 82 |
Genres of Discourse in Literature and in Theory | 83 |
From Dostoevsky to Calvino | 85 |
ON THE SOURCES OF YOUNG BAKHTINS ETHICS KANT VVEDENSKIJ SIMMEL COHEN | 91 |
Kants Three Postulates | 95 |
Vvedenskijs Fourth Postulate | 96 |
Simmels Shadow | 98 |
Bakhtin and the Formal Ought | 101 |
The Ambiguity of Experience | 131 |
Murder Confession and Community | 135 |
Why the Subject Is Behind Us | 136 |
Action Inside and Outside the Subject | 138 |
CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONAL IDENTITY | 145 |
On the Dialogue Between Ethnos and Demos | 149 |
Identity | 152 |
For and against the Nation | 157 |
A DIALOGUE ON THE NATION IN POSTNATIONAL TIMES | 169 |
The Quebec Case | 174 |
The Nation as Subjectless Communication | 185 |
The Nation as a Politics of Concession | 190 |
On National Minorities | 198 |
CONCLUSION ON CULTURE AND THE POLITICAL | 203 |
NOTES | 211 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 227 |
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