생태학적 생기력과 포스트휴먼 윤리 비전

• 영문명: Ecological Vitality and Posthuman Ethical Vision: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이정희
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』제27집 2호, 109~140쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.09.30

영문 초록

This paper aims to reexamine anthropocentric attitudes toward the non-human world and the commodification of nature driven by human self-centeredness. It also seeks to propose an affirmative posthuman ethics in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. This novel illustrates how the castaway Pi undergoes a transformation, acquiring posthuman subjectivity as he escapes the grip of anthropocentrism and moves toward interconnectedness with both humans and non-humans while surviving in the Pacific Ocean with the Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Pi’s experience of unity with nature signifies his growing understanding of the interdependent realities involving nature, the environment and animals. From the perspective of vitalist materialism, Pi comes to realize that he is an integral part of coexistence and coevolution within his relationship with nature and the non-human world. His subjectivity is oriented toward a sense of belonging to the universe. This novel not only prompts a shift in humanity’s environmental consciousness toward a postanthropocentric perspective but also encourages a harmonious balances between humans and non-humans. It suggests a vitalist posthuman ethics for a sustainable future. The relationality between humans and non-humans does not entail a return to exclusive privilege but rather points toward the interconnected facets of vitalist materialism. Pi’s transformation into a relational self with the non-human world invites readers to participate in the process of ‘becoming’ within generative environments and to pursue coevolution within vitalistic self-organizing assemblages.

목차

1. 서론

2. 자아 중심에서 생태 중심으로 포스트휴먼의 환경적 지속가능성 추구

3. 동물과 환경에 대한 인간중심주의 인식의 재고

4. 파이의 조난자로서 해상여행과 지속가능성 인식

5. 파이의 생기론적 윤리의식 인식

6. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

얀 마텔 『파이 이야기』 후기인간중심주의 생기론 포스트휴머니즘 Yann Martel Life of Pi postanthropocentrism vitalism posthumanism