Políticas estéticas del pensamiento bajtiniano: hacia una dialogía poética

Abstract

From his earliest writings, Bakhtin seems to consider the need to establish a moral philosophy based on being as an event and on the ethical act as a condition of existence. Responsibility is, within this philosophy, the only category we have to overcome the division between concrete acts and the sense we give them, between experience and thought, art and life. In considering this gap, Bakhtin comes closer to more specifically Marxist approaches, pointing out as a symptom of the crisis of contemporary culture the split between act and product. The aesthetic reason is part of the practical reason and to exercise the esthetic reason supposes an ethical implication of the participant. The present article is an analysis of the political aesthetics of Bakhtin, of the polyphonic novel as a bourgeois novel, of its romantic-idealistic characterization of poetry and of the somatic as the origin of a radical politics.