Abbreviations of Works by Bakhtin and Voloshinov Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Appropriation in History The World According to Globalisation and Bakhtin; P.Hitchcock Bakhtin's Dialogism Reconsidered Through Hegel's 'Monologism': the Dialectical Foundation of Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Human Sciences; J.F. Côté Culture, Form, Life: The Early Lukács and the Early Bakhtin; G.Tihanov Bakhtin, Marxism and Russian Populism; C.Brandist Memories of Nature in Bakhtin and Benjamin; B.Sandywell 'A Very Understandable Horror of Dialectics': Bakhtin and Marxist Phenomenology; M.Gardiner Looking Back on the Subject: Mead and Bakhtin on Reflexivity and the Political; G.Nielsen Bakhtin and the Study of Popular Culture: Re-thinking Carnival as a Historical and Analytical Concept; C.Humphrey What is Marxism in Linguistics?; V.M.Alpatov Bibliography Index