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"Patterson has had access to important untranslated texts from Bakhtin's earliest period. From this perspective he is able to see what others, reading a partial Bakhtin, have not seen: that Bakhtin is a rather conservative thinker, more a 'philosopher of life' with roots in the pre-Romantics than a Marxist or a semiotician in twentieth-century parlance.-- Philosophy and Literature" -- Philosophy and Literature