As a postmodern novelist who emphasizes conscience and responsibility of writers, Don DeLillo, with his postmodern writing techniques, profoundly reveals the politics, economy, technologies, mass media, terrorism and the living conditions of the people in the post-industrial American society. Taking the perspective of ethics as the breakthrough point, this essay analyzes the imbalanced ethical relationships between man and nature, man and society, and man and himself in postmodern American society reflected in White Noise, Libra, Cosmopolis, Falling Man as well as DeLillo’s thought of ethical care and ethical salvation. He posits that man, as an ethical subject, should return to his humanity as a human being in order to face the imbalanced relationships in this postmodern society and apply the goodness and love in human nature to solve the ethical problems of the postmodern era.

Yuanqing Wu, Xiaowei Luo, Junping Xia. Interpretation of Ethics in DeLillo’s Fiction. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 6: 48-55. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.060610.

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