Bakhtin, chronotope and two kant’s aesthetics (comments to some footnote)

About the author:

Tatiana S. Karachentseva,

Abstract:

This article deals with the conceptual paradox of the notion of chronotope, which consists in the fact that, according to Bakhtin, this notion must be a category (in the Kantian sense) and, at the same time, a form of intuition. The comparative analysis of Kant’s aesthetics (in its two senses) and Bakhtin’s aesthetics is used as a research tool. It is shown that a consistent interpretation of the chronotope both as a category of literature and a form of vision becomes possible only on the basis of Bakhtin’s idea that aesthetics has its own categories, not borrowed from the theory of knowledge and ethics, by which the “real existence” is transposed into the dimension of literary presentation.

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