To Live a Meaningful Life: Reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through Heideggerian Techne

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI:10.1353/phl.2021.0023

Tara Cuthbertson

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Abstract:In an effort to contribute to the burgeoning practice of reading literature through a Heideggerian lens that has been jumpstarted by such scholars as Pol Vandevelde, Jonathan Bate, Dominic Griffiths, and William Galperin, this article explores the various ways that Martin Heidegger's question concerning technology can shed light on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I examine how Heidegger's "true technology," that is, techne ("poiesis" or "bringing-forth") parallels the Romantic use of autopoiesis. Both Heideggerian philosophy and Shelley's Frankenstein exhibit instances in which techne and other acts of poiesis enable the subject access to an ecstatic experience of time and being.

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过有意义的生活:从海德格尔技术看玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》

摘要:本文探讨了马丁·海德格尔的技术问题对玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》的启示，以期对波尔·范德维德、乔纳森·贝特、多米尼克·格里菲斯和威廉·加尔佩林等学者迅速兴起的通过海德格尔视角阅读文学的实践有所贡献。我研究了海德格尔的“真正的技术”，即技术(“poiesis”或“带来”)如何与浪漫主义的自创生(autopoiesis)相似。海德格尔哲学和雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》都展示了技术和其他创造行为使主体获得时间和存在的狂喜体验的例子。

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