TY - JOUR
AB -  REVIEWS achieving nothingness. Hence Blanchot allows us to see night as a ‘transgression of the law of the “day”’ (p. ) and to identify two kinds of night, the first of which would be the ‘accomplishment of the Absolute’, a night in which death is possible. At this point, however, the very disappearance of everything appears as something, producing a second night in which the Absolute cannot be accomplished because of the persistence of the poem that stands as the presence of absence. Thus Mallarmé ‘marks the disruption of this closure’ (p. ) that Hegel would have sought in the passage from art to absolute knowledge, summing up a certain strand of the Western aesthetic and philosophic tradition, but also pointing the way beyond it. [doi: ./fmls/cqv] RENFREW,ALASTAIR. Mikhail Bakhtin. New York and London: Routledge (Routledge Critical Thinkers), .  pp. £.. ISBN ––––. Alastair Renfrew’s book, a part of the Routledge Critical Thinkers Series, is a comprehensive guide to the life and works of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. The book begins with a critical analysis of Bakhtin’s unusual career in Soviet and (for the most part) Stalinist Russia, his major works, the fragmented history of their 
TI - Renfrew, Alastair. Mikhail Bakhtin. New York and London: Routledge (Routledge Critical Thinkers), 2015. 186 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978–0–415–31969–0
JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/cqv043
DA - 2015-07-08
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/renfrew-alastair-mikhail-bakhtin-new-york-and-london-routledge-0rG3o2J0Sq
SP - 356
EP - 356
VL - 51
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -