摘要
《我们现在的生活方式》是桑塔格在20世纪80年代艾滋病开始为人所知并谈"艾"色变之时发表的一部短篇小说,不可避免地镌刻着鲜明的时代印记,但其意义又远远地跨越了那个时代。桑塔格与存在主义有着极为密切的关系,在《我们现在的生活方式》中她融入了自己对存在主义自由观和责任观的理解,并与其后的《艾滋病及其隐喻》互为观照。在放浪形骸地享受所谓的自由后,人们不得不吞咽下这种不负责任的自由的苦果,但与此同时,他们又战胜了内心的恐惧,走出自由的迷局,勇敢地承担起责任,以温情化解疾病带来的各种心理危机,迈向了真正的成熟。
The Way We Live Now,a short story,written by Susan Sontag in the 1980s when AIDS began to be known and stirred a public panic,inevitably bears the mark of the era,but its significance undoubtedly transcends the 1980s. Sontag's close relationship with Sartrean Existentialism makes it apparent in the story that her own understanding of the two existentialist concepts of freedom and responsibility. The story also heralds Sontag's later essay 'AIDS and Its Metaphors'in which she elaborates on the AIDS topic. While tasting the bitterness brought by the so called freedom without any sense of responsibility,people in the story overcame their fears,walked out of the labyrinth of freedom and bravely shouldered the difficult tasks of looking after each other. Thus,they defused the psychological crisis caused by AIDS and walked towards the real maturity.
基金
国家社会科学基金(12CWW002)
江苏省教育厅高校哲学社会科学基金(2012SJB750029)
