Abstract:  The hegemony of instrumental reason has roots in modern man's excessive worship of knowledge and technical products, and is embodied in the pursuit of absolute technological rationality, which has resulted in the devaluation of human emotion and the alienation of man. From the perspective of postmodern space theory, with the influx of capital, such alienation expands from cities to the countryside and from developed regions to the developing ones, and is manifest in the invasion of the rural space by mechanical civilization. This makes human redemption an important concern of modern age. In her novel Surfacing, Margaret Atwood vividly depicts the expansion of alienation due to the hegemony of instrumental reason and while offering a powerful critique of the hegemony, she also suggests possibilities for human redemption through a return to nature. Hence, Surfacing is to be read not just a work of ecofeminism but as one that has greater relevance to us in a world of globalization.
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Key words:  instrumental reason, hegemony, natural ecology, space, Surfacing