ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the vulnerability of these wounded heroes slaughtered by the state system and doomed to grieve the sufferings and premature deaths of their mates. This exposure to violence and mourning is what makes the clones intensely human. The chapter identifies and investigates three major forms of this vulnerability in Ishiguro's novel: the existential, the biopolitical, and the ethical, which are investigated through insights offered by Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Giorgio Agamben, and Judith Butler. The chapter focuses on the complexity of forms that Heideggerian Sorge can take in Ishiguro's novel. Ishiguro's protagonists are constituted by the condition of being immersed in the world, tied and enmeshed, exposed and wounded. At the heart of Ishiguro's concept of human relationships, along the dividing line between the biopolitics and the ethics of the novel, there lies the conundrum of ties that originate from ruthless manipulation and yet, at the same time, are profoundly humane.
