The revisionist approach in this book, based on Mikhail Bakhtin¿s work, traces the search for common and specific grounds of the humanities, beginning with psychologism through hermeneutics and semiotics up to the present state of self-annihilation. As an alternative, the book seeks to define humanities as the examination of relationships, which offers an array of refreshing perspectives on each field discussed.

Introduction
Matthias Freise    

Internal Dialogism of Russian Postmodern Literature ¿ Polyphony or Schizophrenia?
Maria Andrianova

Between Socrates and the Stranger: How Dialogic Are Plato¿s Dialogues?
Kryštof Bohá¿ek

Dialogic Method in Literary History
Matthias Freise

Towards a Dialogical Sociology
Michä Kaczmarczyk

Discourses in the Design of Cultural Artifacts
Klaus Krippendorff

Attachment Patterns in the Bi-personal Field
Reinhard Plassmann

Voices in Image. A Methodological and Theoretical Approach to the Dialogic Image of the Other with the European Image of China as an Example
Xiaojing Wang

List of Contributors

Matthias Freise is professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.