Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Mikhail Bakhtin argued that no utterance exists in isolation — every word is a response to what came before and anticipates what comes next. Dialogism is his radical theory that meaning is never singular, never finished, and never owned by one speaker.

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Topics covered:
• What is dialogism?
• The utterance vs. the sentence
• Polyphony and the novel
• Bakhtin vs. Saussure
• Why dialogism matters for understanding communication

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The Autodidact's Toolkit — accessible philosophy for independent learners.

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