Part 2: Intellectual Influences and Contexts Gathered together here are papers by Bocharov on conversations with Bakhtin Holquist on the life of Bakhtin Steinglass on the authorship debate Parrington on Voloshinov in the history of politics and ideas and Shevtsova on Medvedev's sociological poetics. This section includes discussions of Bakhtin's biography and evaluations of his significance. The 4 volumes are divided into the following parts: It enriches our understanding of this prolific and multi-dimensional figure whose contribution stretches over the fields of cultural studies, linguistics, social philosophy, sociology and beyond. This unparalleled collection provides readers with the best secondary work on Bakhtin. The material is organized thematically to provide a contextual basis of Bakhtin's thought and his central influences, including an investigation of the key concepts in Bakhtin's work (such as aesthetics, carnival, dialogism, the chronotope, and ethics) the major debates and interpretations around Bakhtin's writings comparisons between Bakhtin and other significant sociocultural theorists, notably Foucault, Derrida, Habermas and Gramsci and appropriations and applications of Bakhtin's ideas in such diverse fields as anthropology, geography, cultural studies and psychology. Bakhtin (1895-1975), as well as the work of other central members of the so-called 'Bakhtin Circle', especially Voloshinov and Medvedev. This timely and comprehensive collection covers the contribution and significance of the famed Russian social and cultural theorist, Mikhail M.