Anton Chekhov The Social Origins of Mental Illness - Matt Raphael Johnson

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Recorded April 12, 2012 Anton Chekhov The Social Origins of Mental Illness. Matt Raphael Johnson discusses: Chekhov and the social origin of mental illness; Short stories Ward No. 6 and A Nervous Breakdown; These short stories as anti-modernist and anti-bureaucratic; Chekhov and the critique of modernism.