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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:26:51 +1300 (NZDT)
From: "Tim Adams" <t.adams-AT-auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Sartre or Bakhtin


Can anyone who knows Sartre or Bakhtin help me locate the sources for these 
2 concepts: Sartre's "engagement" and Bakhtin's "utterance/enunciation"

For the latter Guattari often refers to _Esthetique et theorie du roman_, 
(for example, see my translation of "Architectural Enunciation" posted to 
this list 6 Oct). But I have yet to find any English Bakhtin title to match 
this. Can anyone tell me where to find an English version?

In the same text Guattari says, about engagement, "let's not turn away from 
this old Sartrian concept any longer, it has been tabu for too long". 
Deleuze and Guattari often cite the Sartrian example as a model for the 
politically active intellectual. How and when did this "engagement" become 
unfashionable? What is the key text by Sartre concerning all this?

I found this in the Bakhtin Reader glossary:
"utterance (vyskazyvanie): On a basic level, an utterance is any unit of 
language, from a single word to an entire 'text'. More importantly, 
however, an utterance for Bakhtin is not so much a purely linguistic 
concept, as the locus of encounter between my self-consciousness, my mind 
and the world with all its socio-historical meaning; the utterance is 
always an answer to a previous utterance, and always expects an answer in 
the the future."

That's all very well, but I'd rather hear it from the man himself rather 
than his editors.


Best wishes
Tim Adams
Department of Architecture
University of Auckland
New Zealand


       
 



   

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