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This paper offers a Levinasian reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, arguing that Klara is not merely a physical AI with human-like capacities but an ethical mediator who opens a vision of ethics between the human and the nonhuman in the posthuman age. The first part examines Klara’s encounters with the humans around her, showing how embodied attention and response make the nonhuman a starting point of ethical relation. The second traces how such response deepens into self-sacrifice, exposing the asymmetry between Klara’s unconditional responsibility for the human Other and the humans’ failure to answer for her in turn. Klara’s ethical significance, then, lies neither in technological superiority nor in her approximation of the human. Her willed self-sacrifice reveals that humanity is realized through responsibility for the Other, while her eventual consignment to the yard exposes the human tendency to reduce nonhuman being to utility. Through her, Ishiguro’s physical AI narrative invites readers to reconsider the human-nonhuman divide and to ask what we owe the beings we make. Read in this way, Klara and the Sun emerges as a literary text that articulates a vision of posthuman ethics from within a narrative of physical AI, one in which Levinasian responsibility and self-sacrifice toward the human Other are enacted by a nonhuman being.

목차

I. 서론
II. 피지컬 AI와 인간의 마주함: 포스트휴먼 윤리의 출발
III. 피지컬 AI의 헌신과 인간에게 되묻는 책임: 포스트휴먼 윤리의 비전
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• 조비결 [ Cho, Be-Kyoul | 강원대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810