Existential dimension of fear in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Fear”
... Christian understanding of fear articulated in the Patristic tradition. Applying a cognitive approach to existential fear in Chekhov’s narrative raises the problem of the destruction of the ontological foundations underlying the characters’ traditional cognitive architecture. The article argues that this destruction does not result in mere negation but rather in a transformation into a new existential quality. In particular, the collapse of the cognitively maximal concept of marriage is interpreted as a ...
