Two Convergences to Dynamic Formalism: Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Brouwer’s Creating Subject

Abstract

We argue that the recent developments of the dialogical framework towards the incorporation of materiality within dialogues certainly enables one to extend its possible applications beyond the domain of logic. We ask the question of linking Bakhtin’s criticism of literary formalism, based on advocating dialogical features within novels, and the dialogical sight on formalism, in order to assess the program of constituting a dynamical formalism as a means towards literary analysis, enabling to speak of subjectivity without falling into psychologism. By the way, we propose a dialogical reading of the alleged non constructivity of Kripke’s schema in (Sundholm Constructivity and computability in historical and philosophical perspective, logic, epistemology, and the unity of science. Springer, Dordrecht, 2015) and we indicate a new path towards another understanding of its constructive content.