Steppenwolf

The battle of the good and the bad. Fierce distiction of the East and the West. The typical dualism which can be found anywhere from philosophy to literature. Although, this has an end and transform to a much complex plane by the hand of Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher and theoretician who passover the simple dualism by putting his own Notion which is known as “dialogism”. This notion is also different from “dialectics” because it has more powerful definition to understand how contrary notions can be found at the same order. This has a typical sample in Russian literature: Raskolnikov of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. From the novelist point of view, Raskolnikov is the character which depicts man of contradictions. So, it has also have an impact on Bakhtin’s theory of philosophy. Things and ideas which are just opposed to each other can simply find theirselves in one body and works somehow together. This new perception had been made Bakhtin very special on the eye of