On The Edge Of The Life Of The Body Of Carnival - Bakhtin

Traditional western philosophy has already definite the division of the two worlds:the ideal world of transcendentalism, and the real-life world of experience. The former one is the residence of soul, a paradise of idealists, a wonderland of all wiser and philosopher; whereas the latter representing the abode of human body, restrain the evolution, distillation and the way of soul to the heaven. Hence, Polato advocated that people renounce human bodies and mortal world and repose all hopes in the faraway dreamland. Traditional western philosophy hesitated in maintaining in either of these two opposing worlds and inclined to the superiority the mental world over morality.However, the philosophy of belief-worship is already doubted and criticized beyond the new concept of existentialism. Being the theme of the times, existentialism from the beginning emphasized on forsaking acquisitive mental world, and no longer assimilation inspiration from the unforeseeable transcendental world, but paid close attention on morality, real life, and human bodies as well as endeavored to explore the basis of survival, nature of human beings, and value of the truth. To such an extent, perceptuality has appeared at present cultural stage after breaking through various shackles and becomes more heating focal points in many subjects. In all researches, the Body Carnival theory of Bakhtin entitled a characteristic of folk (margin) culture, played an essential role in Bakhtin's ideology. This paper aims to explore the definition, characteristics, development and innovation of the theory of Body Carnival through illustration and analysis on Bakhtin's lifetime and philosophy of margin science.Introduction. In this paper, the author is going to have a brief introduction of Bakhtin's research state, achievement and limitation in Carnival theory study, perspective, significance, question rising and so on.First part, question rising. The author will have a trace study on Bakhtin's poetic description and Acura of body from the specific marginal scenarios. On one hand, rough margin of life experience, on the other, physical demands against the traditional view towards body, for which two close aspects, the author thought made Bakhtin's explore owning the special features of wisdom, connotations, characteristics and innovation. The second part, introduce the bodily carnival from philosophy perspective. Based on the marginalization, Bakhtin found that the difference between " I" and "the other" was not lying on the ideological difference, but on the different bodies between "my" and "their". The basic difference among people is the physical footprint which decides the attitude, task, rights and obligations, even metaphysical ideology state. As a result, during the poetic study of body, Bakhtin criticized the traditional metaphysics; break the unitary and unique Ptolemaic world, which manifests the value of civil truth, further find a philosophy of life care.The third part, explain the specific performance and characteristics on carnival's square in great detail. Carnival should be the carnival of body firstly and mainly. The author will reveal world view connotations and characteristics of body carnival, describe an ideal survival mode dreamed by Bakhtin from managing and re-showing the perform ceremony of the clowns, the liars, the fools, the madmen and so on, on the carniva'sl square, also public closely, freely association mode.Part 4. This part clears the profound carnival theory of quality Body carnalism contains. Bakhtin's carnival theory, based on margin and focus on body, affirms the secular world life desires and restores the vigorous vitality. It is the basic content and pursuit of Bakhtin's carnival theory.It is also the reversal and dialogue of bakhtin directed towards the mainstream ideology from his marginal scenarios.Conclusion. The theory of Body Carnival, which concluded by Bakhtin from marginalization of realistic life experience, reposed his desire for the ideal future society—hierarchy suppressed, poor-rich disparities eliminated, inferior discrimination vanished, and freedom circulated. People love each other devotedly. They dispel conflicts by peaceful settlement; reconcile by sociability and achieve general consensus by exchanging views.