K poznámke pod čiarou: Bachtinov termín „chronotop“ v kontexte materializmu

Abstract

This article contributes to the scholarly discourse on Mikhail Bakhtin’s ambiguous concept of “chronotope” (time-space). As Bakhtin “explains” his understanding of “time” and “space” in Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel in the footnote alluding to Kant’s “Transcendental Aesthetics”, claiming to understand “time” and “space” not as “transcendental” but as the forms of the “most immediate reality”, various commentators have focused on the Bakhtin-Kant connection to grasp the term’s conceptual meaning. Responding to the previous scholarly discourse, which has not taken into the consideration the materialist dimension of Bakhtin’s thought, the study reconstructs Bakhtin’s axiology present in his analysis of particular chronotopes and subsequently illustrates chronotope as a materialist anti-ideological tool.

Keywords

• mikhail bakhtin
• chronotope
• dialogism
• materialism