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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