Ideology as Process or Bakhtin's Quarrel

In the 1990s the theory of M. Bakhtin & his circle (Medvedev, Volsinov) became the subject of sometimes virulent reinterpretations in Russia. In this article, we try to present some tendencies among Russian intellectuals to take a stand with respect to Bakhtin's thought & concepts which have appeared over the last decade. The "polyphony" of critical readings called "quarrel of Bakhtin" presents a diachronical overview of the divergent perspectives built by different generations of Russian-Soviet researchers, from the founding text of Soviet semiotics in the 1970s (V. V. Ivanov) to the heterogeneous interpretations by researchers of the following generation (B. Grois, V. Makhlin, M. Ryklin) & the actual generation of 30 year-old intellectuals (V. Lineckij). 12 References. Adapted from the source document