The Absence of the Other in the Bakhtin’s Philosophy of the Act

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of the problem of the Other in the Bakhtin’s essay «Toward a Philosophy of the Act», which was written in the so-called pre-dialogical period. The article reveals some consonances of Bakhtin’s interpretation of human being with the world tendencies in philosophy (not in anthropology but epistemology only). Dialog is impossible in the essay perspective because Bakhtin is concentrated there on monologism and egocentrism of the acting person. The Other is not identified and distinguished from the objective world of not-I in the essay, so it is not possible to make statement about the absence of the Other in it.