Chekhov, intelligentsia, and the ethics of small deeds
A biocritical essay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D N Shalin (0000-0002-2793-9531, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-76 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Russian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19409419.2020.1727361 |
| OpenAlex | W3007039673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This is an inquiry into Anton Chekhov’s embodied existence and the interfaces between his biography and intellectual pursuits. Chekhov’s art serves here as a clue to his affective life and performative contradictions rather than as a self-contained aesthetic output. I argue that Chekhov’s life offers a window onto Russian society and the intelligentsia, a peculiar intellectual stratum to which Chekhov belonged and which he sought to reshape. I start my discussion with a few general notes on biocritique, a branch of pragmatist hermeneutics that provides a theoretical framework for this project. After this, I move on to Chekhov’s childhood and the socio-cultural context that shaped his corporeal agency. Next, I bring into focus Chekhov’s life as an artistic, intellectual, and personal project, focusing on the way he bodied forth his discourse and validated his principles in action. Finally, I identify the junctures where the semiotic chain of Chekhov’s existence showed strains, where his affect, ideas, and actions worked at cross-purpose
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Biography · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Intelligentsia · Literature · Performative utterance · Politics · Pragmatism · Semiotics · Sociology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
The Mercurian Master
Hermeneutics and Prejudice
Signing in the Flesh
Soviet Civilization and Its Emotional Discontents
Chekhov and Women
Liberalism, affect control, and emotionally intelligent democracy
Pragmatism and Social Interactionism
Relations in Public
Interfacing Biography, Theory and History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |