Guy Davidov and Brian Langille (eds) The Idea of Labour Law
discussion to tangible aspects of work, such as being paid and their office location. In their chapter, Paul Collins and Darl Colb examine the related issue of the extent of agency in choosing when to be connected in virtual design teams to achieve the highest level of innovation. They identify that connecting is important for stimulating creativity, but that time for uninterrupted thought is also critical. Overall, the chapters in this book draw attention to both the benefits of new forms of work and also their dark side, as well as raising in some chapters important issues about identity and agency.
The Early Intellectual Careers of Bakhtin and Herzen: Towards a Philosophy of the Act
The article explores common ground shared by Alexander Herzen's `Dilettantism in Science' (1843) and Mikhail Bakhtin's `Towards a Philosophy of the Act' (1919) in the context of the Russian intellectual tradition as a whole. The primary aim is to explore in many ways, perhaps, unlikely affinities between two very different writers in the early stage of their careers. The secondary aim is to explore identifiably `Russian' motifs which may be said to call into question conventional typologies of Russian thought based on the progressive/conservative divide.
Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse
This text explores Mikhail Bakhtin's reliance on the terms and concepts of theology. It begins with an identification of the theological categories and terms recalling Christology in general and Trinitarianism in particular that emerge throughout Bakhtin's long and varied career. Alexander Mihailovic discusses the elaborately wrought subtextual imagery, wordplay, and palpable orality of Bakhtin's theology of discourse, and explores the role that theology plays in supporting Bakhtin's ideas about the anti-hierarchical drift of language and culture.