With the announcement of the sheep clone Dolly as the breakthrough in the biotechnology in news media around the turn of the twenty-first century, the rising issue of human clones in its development and the controvers...With the announcement of the sheep clone Dolly as the breakthrough in the biotechnology in news media around the turn of the twenty-first century, the rising issue of human clones in its development and the controversially bioethical issues ensued, Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go （2005） focuses his attention, in the area of cell therapy, on how human clones, since produced, lead their model lives and face their deaths, in order that his readers may better understand the meanings of life and death, and that they may stay in a far closer relationship with their family and friends than ever. In this essay, I examine, in two worlds, the normals＇ and the clones＇, paralleling each other, the true meanings of being human and their lives through the perspective of Jacques Derrida＇s deconstruction; and I argue that Ishiguro misspeaks to his readers the true meanings of life and death especially through the clones＇ perspective and brings them to his readers＇ hearts further realistically. In Derrida＇s nature-culture structurality of the clones, it is Kathy H. who comes as center into which the other clones come as freeplay in the structurality of the real world, where it is normals who come as center into which clones come as freeplay under the structurality of power in the institutions where the clones＇ culture comes as center into which Miss Emily＇s ruling comes as freeplay by the structurality of authorship where the author comes as center into which the novel comes as freeplay.展开更多
英国作家石黑一雄的作品《克拉拉与太阳》(Klara and the Sun,2021)将背景设置在近景未来中的美国,藉由人工智能伙伴克拉拉的视角展现了一个充斥着不安与竞争的后人类社会。现阶段的相关批评主要集中于小说所批判的技术理性,而未能深入...英国作家石黑一雄的作品《克拉拉与太阳》(Klara and the Sun,2021)将背景设置在近景未来中的美国,藉由人工智能伙伴克拉拉的视角展现了一个充斥着不安与竞争的后人类社会。现阶段的相关批评主要集中于小说所批判的技术理性,而未能深入挖掘其核心情节,即乔西因基因提升罹患重症所引发的疾病伦理。从疾病伦理学的视角出发,小说中蕴含的唯科学主义疾病观与整体疾病观构成了小说独特的思想魅力。小说揭示了人类所持有的原子论式的唯科学主义疾病观的局限性,并藉此确立了整体疾病观的有效性,通过将乔西的疾病置于与他者、社会和生态的互动之中,整体疾病观从宏观层面确诊了乔西病因并最终使其痊愈。展开更多
文摘With the announcement of the sheep clone Dolly as the breakthrough in the biotechnology in news media around the turn of the twenty-first century, the rising issue of human clones in its development and the controversially bioethical issues ensued, Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go （2005） focuses his attention, in the area of cell therapy, on how human clones, since produced, lead their model lives and face their deaths, in order that his readers may better understand the meanings of life and death, and that they may stay in a far closer relationship with their family and friends than ever. In this essay, I examine, in two worlds, the normals＇ and the clones＇, paralleling each other, the true meanings of being human and their lives through the perspective of Jacques Derrida＇s deconstruction; and I argue that Ishiguro misspeaks to his readers the true meanings of life and death especially through the clones＇ perspective and brings them to his readers＇ hearts further realistically. In Derrida＇s nature-culture structurality of the clones, it is Kathy H. who comes as center into which the other clones come as freeplay in the structurality of the real world, where it is normals who come as center into which clones come as freeplay under the structurality of power in the institutions where the clones＇ culture comes as center into which Miss Emily＇s ruling comes as freeplay by the structurality of authorship where the author comes as center into which the novel comes as freeplay.
文摘英国作家石黑一雄的作品《克拉拉与太阳》(Klara and the Sun,2021)将背景设置在近景未来中的美国,藉由人工智能伙伴克拉拉的视角展现了一个充斥着不安与竞争的后人类社会。现阶段的相关批评主要集中于小说所批判的技术理性,而未能深入挖掘其核心情节,即乔西因基因提升罹患重症所引发的疾病伦理。从疾病伦理学的视角出发,小说中蕴含的唯科学主义疾病观与整体疾病观构成了小说独特的思想魅力。小说揭示了人类所持有的原子论式的唯科学主义疾病观的局限性,并藉此确立了整体疾病观的有效性,通过将乔西的疾病置于与他者、社会和生态的互动之中,整体疾病观从宏观层面确诊了乔西病因并最终使其痊愈。
