Arboreal Thinking: George Eliot and the Matter of Life in Adam Bede
Arboreal Thinking: George Eliot and the Matter of Life in Adam Bede
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树栖思维：乔治·艾略特和亚当·贝德的生命问题
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2019
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R. Livesey
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R. Livesey
在她的第一部小说《亚当·贝德》中，乔治·艾略特的生命感超越了人类，引发了物质生命的伦理问题。亚当·贝德反映了艾略特对科学活力论的兴趣，以及她对斯宾诺莎伦理学的深入参与，探索了赋予所有生命形式活力的生存奋斗（斯宾诺莎的conatus）。其激进的现实主义形式为感受物质生命的存在提供了想象力的基础，没有比树木生命的力量更明显的了。人物反复出现在交错和合作的林地中，并强调树栖生活本身对人文主义未能重视和保护存在的失败进行伦理批判。
In her first novel, Adam Bede, George Eliot’s sense of life is extended beyond the human to evoke ethical questions of the life of matter. Adam Bede reflects Eliot’s interest in scientific vitalism and her deep engagement with Spinoza’s Ethics in its exploration of the striving for existence (Spinoza’s conatus) that animates all forms of life. Its radical form of realism provides an imaginative basis for feeling the presence of the life of matter, nowhere more evident than in the force of the life of trees. Characters are repeatedly presented with interlaced and co-operative woodlands and strain towards the idea that arboreal life itself presents an ethical critique of the failure of humanism to value and protect existence.