Art and AnswerabilityMikhail Bakhtin (1895 1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth century philosophical thought. Art and Answerability contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates, lectures, demonstrations, and manifesto writing of the period. Because they predate works that have already been translated, these essays"Art and Answerability," "Author