Abstract
Despite his own suspicions regarding the value of rhetoric, Bakhtin's understanding of truth as essentially correlative creates a space for the emergence of a vital rhetorical discourse. In this article, I seek to discover the relevance of Bakhtin's early philosophical work by considering its usefulness for questions regarding the complex associations between language, rhetoric, and knowledge. My argument is that Bakhtin's phenomenological analysis of meaning as an event works to create an alternate epistemological framework where the ethical-aesthetic dimension of rhetorical discourse is revealed. I contend that the epistemological significance of correlation is a key element in our ability to understand rhetoric as constitutive of knowledge without falling prey to relativism. Bakhtin mediates the tension between rhetoric and truth by directing our attention to the rhetorical aspects that compose the most basic elements of existing in the world.
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