摘要
奥利弗·萨克斯是英国杰出的神经病学家,著名的科学散文作家,他的三部有代表性的科学散文作品《错把妻子当帽子》《钨舅舅》和《四处漂泊》,蕴涵着这样的人文主义情怀:聚焦神经病患者及作者自己的特殊经历,表达对神经病治疗和人性的看法;凸显神经病患者的潜力与特长,倡导尊重患者、发挥其特长;同情神经病征患者,力主平等待人,真心关爱神经病患者;提倡自然科学与人文学科的结合。这些独特的人文主义意蕴揭示了人性意想不到的可能性,使读者对神经患者有了全新认识,体现了萨克斯对神经病患者这一特殊弱势群体的深切关爱,显示了他的视野的开放性和辩证性,表明西方人文主义的内涵在当代有所丰富和拓展,这是其作品获得广大读者持续青睐的主要因素之一,对我国当前的社会建设、教育理念和文化建设都具有一定的启示意义。
Oliver Sacks is an outstanding British neuropathist and a famous science writer.He has three representative works of science writing,The Man Who Mistook his Wife for A Hat,Uncle Tungsten,and On the Move Embody Obvious Humanistic Ideas,which contains humanistic feelings.These works focus on neuropaths and the author's unique experience to show human nature,advocate respecting neuropaths and developing their talents by highlighting their potentials,sympathy and care to neuropaths by treating them as normal,and uphold the combination of physical sciences and humanities.Those unique humanistic ideas reveal the unexpected potentials of human nature,giving the readers a new understaning about neuropaths.They also displays the writer's deep care for the vulnerable group with the presence of his open and dialectical horizon,and indicate the further enrichment and expansion of the connotation of western humanism in contemporary times.All that is one of the fundamental reasons why Sacks'works are continually popular among the readers,which has significant implications for China's current social development,educational concepts,and cultural construction.
作者
张建国
ZHANG Jianguo(School of Foreign Languages and International Relations,Zhengzhou University,Zhengzhou 450001,Henan,China)
出处
《河南理工大学学报(社会科学版)》
2023年第1期57-63,共7页
Journal of Henan Polytechnic University:Social Sciences
基金
国家哲学社会科学基金一般项目(19BWW072)。