Andrew ShieldsWith Laurie Sheck, a train of thought from Mikhail Bakhtin to Friedrich Nietzsche to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Basel and a donkey, and to Turin and a horse. #111Words #LaurieSheck #MikhailBakhtin #Osteomyelitis #FriedrichNietzsche #FyodorDostoevsky #TheIdiot #PrinceMyshkin #Switzerland #Basel #Donkey #Turin #Horse #MentalBreakdown #Literature #Philosophy https://111-words.ghost.io/with-laurie-sheck-a-train-of-thought-from-mikhail-bakhtin-to-friedrich-nietzsche-to-fyodor-dostoevsky-to-basel-and-a-donkey-and-to-turin-and-a-horse/
With Laurie Sheck, a train of thought from Mikhail Bakhtin to Friedrich Nietzsche to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Basel and a donkey, and to Turin and a horse
According to Laurie Sheck's article "Bakhtin's Freedom", the Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) lived from his youth with chronic osteomyelitis. For me, Sheck's juxtaposition of Bakhtin's thinking and disability immediatelyechoed the biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Later, Sheck quotes a passage from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" (1868-1869), the epileptic