Abstract

Although Bakhtin and Hegel's ideas are not very clearly related at first glance, and especially since Bakhtin is critical of Hegel and his dialectical method in his explicit statements, yet, Bakhtin's principles let us have an intertextual reading of his texts and his dialogism, as a framework of his thought, based on Hegel's dialectic. This intertextual reading consists of three parts: In the first part, the dialectical moments, which are "in-itself", "for-itself", and "in-and-for-itself" are identified in Bakhtin's dialogism. The second part is devoted to a review of Bakhtin's dialogism with the help of the logical concepts of "universal", "particular", and "individual" from Hegel's philosophy. In the third part, Bakhtin's claim that Hegel's dialectic is monologic is examined. As a result of this intertextual reading, although Bakhtin's hidden dialogue with Hegel is revealed, this dialogue does not yet mean that his thought is in complete agreement with Hegel's..