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This essay focuses on the description of the human subject in M. M. Bakhtin's earliest writings and how it is related to his later works. In the history of the Westerners' receiving and appropriating Bakhtinian discourse before the translation and the publication of his earliest manuseripts, as his theories have been presented as dialogism which implies the linguistic approach to them through the French and American translations under the postmodern and poststructural climate, the problems of the subject conceptualized in the Western metaphysics his earliest manuscript raises have been attenuated relatively into a new dialogic condition for the inquiry of the subject Thus, this is to re-contextualize his major works with the help of his creative deseription of the subject in terms of ethics and aesthetics so that we may overcome the fatal theoretism immanent in the pre-existing narratives which presume the center or no center in the subject. Bakhtin's ideas about the subject start from a non-alibi in being and the architectonics of the subjects, which are ethical critique of one-sided theoretical transcription for Being-as-event once-occurrent in time, irreplaceable in place, and unique in axiology. This concern with the subject as agency continues to be a study of human authorship in "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity," which portrays the subject not only authored by the other but also authoring through the relationship between self and other in the ocular and somatic realm, which is cognitive and aesthetic critique of the finalized and monologic representation of the subject. Then, his description of subjects finds its best way into the novel through which the heteroglotic/polyphonic reality can be visualized and audible enough to make concrete the dialogic subject moving on the junctures of all discourse in the social/historical/political situation. This creative understanding and literary valorization of the subject as dialogic agency through the eyes of the novel can provide the centrifugal power against the image of de-centered, anti-humanistic subject whereby the networks of centripetal power in the late capitalism try to finalize us.