爱丽丝·门罗对主体和他者伦理的双重反思

Alice Munro's Double Disillusions on Ethics of the Subject and the Other

从文学伦理学批评的角度解读爱丽丝·门罗的《逃离》,就会发现她揭示了女性在当下面临的多重伦理困境:主体性伦理要求个体的绝对理性和意志,成为超我的神话;抛弃这种话语则会让主体失去稳固的基础,遭遇存在的虚无;他者伦理或许可以克服后主体的孤独感和虚无感,却可能因此让个体尤其是女人失去自由,无可逃离。

Reading “Runaway” from an ethical perspective will let us know that Alice Munro demonstrates the double impasses of both the ethics of the Subject and the ethics of the Other. The classical discourse on subjectivity is mythol course, however, wo ogized, requiring the absolute rationality and the will of the subject. Rejecting the dis- uld leave the subject foundationless, drowning him in meaninglessness. Levinas＇ ethics of the Other, which could be a remedy to nihilism and loneliness, might bereave the subject, especially woman, of his/her freedom. To Munro, there is now way out.