There are patterns of continuite discontinu (Derrida) in the figural transactions between human groups and between humans and animals in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda that remain underexamined. By emphasizing ironic incommensurability and difference, this essay seeks to reveal the logic of ungivenness organizing human interactions in a novel haunted by images of deep time and species extermination. Eliot’s interest in ancestrality and extinction was fueled by her readings in geology and biology (Darwin), but it also evinces a metaphysical concern with uncorrelated time (Kant) that is inseparable from her fascination with the idea of moral rarity .

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在乔治·埃利奥特的丹尼尔·德龙达的人与动物之间以及人与动物之间的形象交易中，存在连续中断的模式（德里达），但这种模式仍未得到充分的研究。通过强调具有讽刺意味的不可通约性和差异性，本文试图揭示一本被深层时间和物种灭绝所困扰的小说中组织人类互动的不仁之道。艾略特（Eliot）对地质学和生物学的阅读激起了他对祖先和灭绝的兴趣（达尔文），但这也表明了对时间无关的形而上学的关注（康德）与她对道德稀有性的迷恋密不可分。