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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Mikhail Bakhtin
Born: November 17, 1895
Died: March 7, 1975 (aged 79)
Bio: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.
Known for:
- Rabelais and His World (1965)
- Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics (1972)
- The dialogic imagination
- Speech genres and other late essays
- Art and answerability