Unlike the third eye of Tibetan Buddhism, which gives those who possess it a vision of the secret unity holding creation together, Bakhtin seems to have had a third ear that permitted him to hear differences where others perceived only sameness, especially in the apparent wholeness of the human voice.-Michael Holquist (1983) The writings of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (17 November 1895-7 March 1975) have enriched the fields of literary theory, cultural and historical linguistics, ethics, religious criticism and other human sciences (such as psychology, sociology and anthropology). The corpus of his work is so varied and wide ranging in its application that it is hard to collect and classify all his concepts under one domain of study. Coulter (1999) maintains that Bakhtin does not articulate and develop one coherent set of ideas; rather, he develops the same idea many times or many ideas at the same time.Bakhtin's works and ideas gained popularity after his death. He lived through many tough moments in his professional life in the Soviet Union. In the 1930s and 1940s, when the Stalinist party was at its height in the Soviet Union, it ignored all other voices and enforced a new form of subjugation (Stewart, 1983). Scholars whose work deviated from the Contemporary Education Dialogue 12(1) 87-109
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