Mikhail Bakhtin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mikhail Bakhtin

Philosopher, scholar

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1895

Place of Birth: Oryol, Oryol Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1975

Profession: writer, literary critic, philosopher, literary historian, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (, Russian: ?????´? ????´?????? ?????´?, pronounced [m??x?'il m??'xajl?v??t? b?x't?in]; 16 November [O.S.
4 November] 1895 – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.
His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology.
Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s.