About the book: 2008 / In this book, which contains the philosophical, cultural, and philological works of Nikolai Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1894–1950), the reader reveals one of the most tragic worldviews in history: N. M. Bakhtin described the spiritual path of humanity as an endless search for absolute freedom, inevitably leading to the opposite: to the creation and constant improvement of that system of spiritual coercion, which, according to Bakhtin, is human culture.