As a thinker, Shi Tiesheng has never been shy about his mental pain and crisis of faith. In his writing, he not only describes the incompleteness and suffering of existence, but also presents to the world the endless wandering of his soul through the way of thinking about the value of life. However, Shi Tiesheng's thinking on the issue of the finitude of human existence is often constrained by value prejudices such as "physical disability and strong will" and "resistance to despair". Therefore, it is difficult for people to see his spiritual breakthrough in enlightenment literature and the important ideological value implicit in it. In fact, compared with many enlightenment writers, Shi Tiesheng often had doubts about human subjectivity. While promoting the power of human nature, he also constantly asked about some "higher power" that creates the mystery of life. It can be said that his reflection on the myth of human subjectivity in the context of modernity, although presented in a fatalistic way of thinking, re-considers the issue of human finitude in the dimension of divinity. The resulting idea of religious salvation not only conveys the writer's personal philosophy of life, but also effectively subverts the Enlightenment myth of contemporary literature.
