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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The problems of Bakhtin studies | |
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| Problems of publication and translation | |
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| Biographical sketch | |
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| The phenomenon of the Circle | |
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| Periods of work | |
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| Philosophical trends | |
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| Neo-Kantianism | |
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| Lebensphilosophie | |
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| Phenomenology | |
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| Gestalt theory | |
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| The crisis of neo-Kantianism | |
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| Religion | |
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| Patterns of appropriation | |
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| The Early Ethical and Aesthetic Philosophy of the Circle (1919-26) | |
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| Philosophy, culture and politics | |
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| Matvei Kagan | |
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| Ethics and aesthetics | |
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| From ethics to literature | |
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| Production of the 'aesthetic object' | |
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| 'Outsideness' | |
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| Crises of 'outsideness' | |
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| The sociology of interaction | |
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| Marxism, Semiotics and Sociology (1926-29) | |
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| Marxism and contemporary philosophy | |
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| Voloshinov and contemporary psychology | |
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| Voloshinov on discourse in life and art | |
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| Sociological poetics and Formalism: Medvedev's Formal Method (1928) | |
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| Voloshinov's Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929) | |
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| Dialogue, literature and 'inner form' | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| From Verbal Interaction to Dialogue: Dostoevsky and the Novel | |
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| Voloshinov: 'Sociological Method and Problems of Syntax' (1929) | |
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| Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Art (1929): Dostoevsky's polyphonic novel | |
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| Problems of Dostoevsky's Art: discourse in Dostoevsky | |
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| The Novel and Literary History (1934-41) | |
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| Cassirer and the Hegelian shift | |
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| Marrism | |
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| Heteroglossia | |
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| Heteroglossia and the novel | |
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| Poetry and the novel | |
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| The 'becoming' of the novel | |
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| The novel and history | |
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| Laughter and critique | |
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| Epic and novel | |
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| The Novelist as Philosopher (1940-63) | |
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| The origins of carnival | |
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| Carnival as a 'proto-genre' | |
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| The grotesque | |
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| Carnival in literature | |
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| Socratic dialogue and Menippean satire | |
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| Carnival in Dostoevsky | |
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| Goethe and realism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Final Methodological Works | |
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| 'The Problem of Discursive Genres' (1953-54) | |
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| The methodology of the human sciences | |
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| 'The Problem of the Text' | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Bakhtinian Research Programme Yesterday and Today | |
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| The achievement so far | |
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| Problems and tensions | |
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| Realist alternatives | |
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| Critical and political alternatives | |
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| Abbreviations and References in the Text | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |