ABSTRACT 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.

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契诃夫、知识分子和小事的伦理：一篇生物批判性文章

摘要 这是对安东·契诃夫（Anton Chekhov）的具体存在以及他的传记与知识追求之间的接口的调查。契诃夫的艺术在这里充当了他的情感生活和表演矛盾的线索，而不是一种独立的审美输出。我认为契诃夫的生活为了解俄罗斯社会和知识分子提供了一个窗口，这是契诃夫所属的一个奇特的知识分子阶层，他试图重塑这个阶层。我从一些关于生物批判的一般性笔记开始我的讨论，生物批判是实用主义诠释学的一个分支，为这个项目提供了一个理论框架。在此之后，我继续探讨契诃夫的童年以及塑造他的身体能动性的社会文化背景。接下来，我将契诃夫的生活作为艺术、知识和个人项目的重点，专注于他阐述他的话语并在行动中验证他的原则的方式。最后，我确定了契诃夫存在的符号链出现紧张的时刻，他的情感、思想和行动在哪些方面发挥了作用。