本文是一篇英语论文，笔者认为作为本文对《白噪音》的研究切入点、同时也是人类交流中重要环节的交往行为，其本质及行为方式的异化，同样会危及人类的合理存在。
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Don Delillo
Don Delillo (1936-) shines brilliantly in the contemporary American literary world with his unique verbal ability. Harold Bloom once regarded him as one of the four greatest contemporary American writers, along with Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy. With respect to literary achievements, Delillo has produced seventeen novels, seven plays and a number of short stories and essays so far. With his ready dexterity in handling ideas and writing techniques, Delillo has won numerous domestic and international awards. He received the “Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Literature” in 1979; in 1984, he became the winner of the “Literary Award of American Academy of Arts and Letters”; the White Noise published in 1985 brought the honor of “National Book Award” for him; in 1988, he won the “Irish Times International Fiction Prize”; in 1991, he gained the “PEN/Faulkner Award” for the accomplishment of Mao II; moreover, he became the first recipient of the “Jerusalem Prize for Literature” in the United States in 1999; in the Millennium, he was awarded the “William Dean Howells Medal” and the “Riccardo Bacchelli International Award”; in 2009, he was nominated for the “Common Wealth Award for Literature”, and obtained the “PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction” in the following year. 2012 was full of harvest, during which Delillo first won the “Carl Sandburg Literary Award”, and then was shortlisted for the 2012 “Story Prize Award” as well as the “PEN/Faulkner Award” for the publication of The Angel Esmeralda; and he also became the first winner of “the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction” in 2013.
1.2 White Noise
In fact, Delillo’s works fell into oblivion before the late 1980s. He did not rise to fame until White Noise was published, and this led to a proliferation of studies of Delillo and his works in both literary and critical circles. This novel marks the beginning of his attention to American post-industrial era. It is a novel that combines humorous and horrible elements, witty while deeply disturbing at the same time. However, the White Noise is in essence a doomsday apocalypse.
The story is set in a small town named Blacksmith in the central United States in the late 1960s. The protagonist Jack Gladney, who works in Hitler Studies Department of College-on-the-hill, has experienced four failed marriages before he marries his current wife Babette. Jack’s first and fourth marriages are with Dana Breedlove, who is engaged in intelligence work, and they have a nine-year-old daughter named Steffie. His second wife Janet Savory, who has a “marvelous bone structure” (Delillo, 1986: 95), used to be a foreign-currency analyst and now deals with investments, real estate and other business activities in the ashram in Montana. Their son Heinrich is now 14 years old. By his third marriage with Tweedy Browner, he has a daughter named Bee who is twelve years old and lives with her mother after the divorce. Tweedy was born in a distinguished old family, and now remarries Malcolm Hunt, a high-level jungle operative. Babette is the fourth wife, who also has several marriages before tying the knot with Jack. Eleven-year-old Denise is her daughter with Bob Pardee; Later, she gave birth to two sons, Eugene and Wilder, with an Australian researcher. After the divorce, eight-year-old Eugene has been living with his father in Western Australia, while three-year-old Wilder lives with his mother. Now Jack and Babette, carrying their four children born in previous marriages, reorganize an American “post-nuclear family” (Zhu, 2016: 5). The novel develops a portrait of family and small-town life by revolving around this unconventional family structure in the post-modern society.
Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundation
2.1 Habermas’ Criticism of “Technocracy”
To understand the philosophical thought of Jürgen
