Inspired by Bakhtin

Matthias Freise is professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.

“This engaging volume offers seven chapters with differentperspectives on the ‘dialogic’ in the humanities, taking Mikhail Bakhtin’sformulation and testing it from the perspective of seven different disciplineswithin the humanities. … This is a thought-provoking read for anyone working inthe humanities now, although it does expect a reasonable degree of familiaritywith Bakhtin, and it creates a strong argument for defining the humanities interms of the relational and the dialogic.” —Forum for Modern LanguageStudies, Vol. 55, No. 2

• IntroductionMatthias Freise    Internal Dialogism of Russian Postmodern Literature – Polyphony or Schizophrenia?Maria AndrianovaBetween Socrates and the Stranger: How Dialogic Are Plato’s Dialogues?Kryštof BoháčekDialogic Method in Literary HistoryMatthias FreiseTowards a Dialogical SociologyMichał KaczmarczykDiscourses in the Design of Cultural ArtifactsKlaus KrippendorffAttachment Patterns in the Bi-personal FieldReinhard PlassmannVoices in Image. A Methodological and Theoretical Approach to the Dialogic Image of the Other with the European Image of China as an ExampleXiaojing WangList of Contributors