The Influence of Recent Research Achievements in the Biology Field on Contemporary British Fiction

分子生物学——尤其是遗传学和神经科学——的最新研究成果在很大程度上模糊了感觉与理性、精神与身体、正常与异常之间的界限。这种二元对立的消解正在产生一种新的人类概念，一些英国小说家，尤其是伊恩·麦克尤恩，正在回应这一运动。他们力图从哲学知识和生物学知识两方面全面认识人，从而建立一种新型的人文主义。

Recent research achievements in molecular biology--specifically in genetics and neuroscience--have done much to blur the boundaries between feeling and reason, mind and body, and normal and abnormal. This dissolution of binary oppositions is giving rise to a new concept of humans, and some British novelists, especially Ian McEwan, are responding to this movement. They are trying to obtain a comprehensive understanding of humans which derives not only from philosophical knowledge but also from biological one, thereby establishing a new type of humanism.