Science, Art, Politics, and Praxis in Mikhail Bakhtin by Augusto Ponzio

In Bakhtin’s works “the theme in various stages of its development”, or “the emerging idea” is the notion of chronotope. This idea is already present in the text by Bakhtin from the early 1920s, “K filosofii postupka” (1920-24, bilingual Russian and Italian text in Bachtin e il suo circolo 2014)), where he introduces the notion of exotopy (vnenakodimost’). In this text he also introduces the notion of “architectonics” according to which all values, meanings and spatial-temporal relationships are characterized in terms of otherness: “I-for-myself, the other-for-me, and I-for-the-other”.

Introduction 1/2013

Each of the papers in this first issue has individual merit, yet collectively and indirectly they together signpost and gesture towards pertinent possible future directions of this review journal initiative …