| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Human enhancement can be defined as the application of technology to overcome physical or mental limitations of the human, entailing the augmentation and upgrading a person’s abilities and aptitude beyond their normal state. This project primarily explores a great variety of discourses and rhetorics with which human enhancement, a quintessential American experience, has been represented in American literature and then analyzes its emotional affect in connection with the politics of “The Pursuit of Happiness.” With a special emphasis on a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives concerning our irresistible urge for intervention in nature, this study elucidates how contemporary American writers such as Richard Powers and Don DeLillo have groped for their own ethical critique, by closely investigating the multi-layered interface between desires and misgivings frontier biotechnologies arouse.
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