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Stéphane Mallarmé

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Stéphane Mallarmé
Portrait of Mallarmé, by Nadar, 1896
Portrait of Mallarmé, by Nadar, 1896
BornÉtienne Mallarmé
18 March 1842
Paris, France
Died9 September 1898 (aged 56)
Vulaines-sur-Seine, France
OccupationPoet
Literary movementSymbolism
Spouse
Maria Christina Gerhard
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(m. 1863)​
Children2

Stéphane Mallarmé (/ˌmælɑːrˈmeɪ/ MAL-ar-MAY,[1][2][3] French: [stefan malaʁme] (listen); 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.

Biography[edit]

Mallarmé was born in Paris. He was a boarder at the Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy between 6[4] or 9 October 1852 and March 1855.[5] He worked as an English teacher and spent much of his life in relative poverty but was famed for his salons, occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house on the rue de Rome for discussions of poetry, art and philosophy. The group became known as les Mardistes, because they met on Tuesdays (in French, mardi), and through it Mallarmé exerted considerable influence on the work of a generation of writers. For many years, those sessions, where Mallarmé held court as judge, jester, and king, were considered the heart of Paris intellectual life. Regular visitors included W.B. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Stefan George, Paul Verlaine, and many others.

Along with other members of La Revue Blanche such as Jules Renard, Julien Benda and Ioannis Psycharis, Mallarmé was a Dreyfusard.[6]

On 10 August 1863, he married Maria Christina Gerhard. They had two children, Geneviève in 1864 and Anatole in 1871. Anatole died in 1879. Mallarmé died in Valvins (present-day Vulaines-sur-Seine), near Fontainebleau, on September 9, 1898.[7]

Style[edit]

Édouard Manet, Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé, 1876

Mallarmé's earlier work owes a great deal to the style of Charles Baudelaire who was recognised as the forerunner of literary Symbolism.[8] Mallarmé's later fin de siècle style, on the other hand, anticipates many of the fusions between poetry and the other arts that were to blossom in the next century. Most of this later work explored the relationship between content and form, between the text and the arrangement of words and spaces on the page. This is particularly evident in his last major poem, Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish chance') of 1897.[9]

Some consider Mallarmé one of the French poets most difficult to translate into English.[10] The difficulty is due in part to the complex, multilayered nature of much of his work, but also to the important role that the sound of the words, rather than their meaning, plays in his poetry. When recited in French, his poems allow alternative meanings which are not evident on reading the work on the page. For example, Mallarmé's Sonnet en '-yx' opens with the phrase ses purs ongles ('her pure nails'), whose first syllables when spoken aloud sound very similar to the words c'est pur son ('it's pure sound'). Indeed, the 'pure sound' aspect of his poetry has been the subject of musical analysis and has inspired musical compositions. These phonetic ambiguities are very difficult to reproduce in a translation which must be faithful to the meaning of the words.[11]

Influence[edit]

General poetry[edit]

Mallarmé's poetry has been the inspiration for several musical pieces, notably Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), a free interpretation of Mallarmé's poem L'après-midi d'un faune (1876), which creates powerful impressions by the use of striking but isolated phrases.[12] Maurice Ravel set Mallarmé's poetry to music in Trois poèmes de Mallarmé (1913). Other composers to use his poetry in song include Darius Milhaud (Chansons bas de Stéphane Mallarmé, 1917) and Pierre Boulez (Pli selon pli, 1957–62).

Stéphane Mallarmé as a faun, cover of the literary magazine Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, 1887.

Man Ray's last film, entitled Les Mystères du Château de Dé (The Mystery of the Chateau of Dice) (1929), was greatly influenced by Mallarmé's work, prominently featuring the line "A roll of the dice will never abolish chance".

Mallarmé is referred to extensively in the latter section of Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours, where Des Esseintes describes his fervour-infused enthusiasm for the poet: "These were Mallarmé's masterpieces and also ranked among the masterpieces of prose poetry, for they combined a style so magnificently that in itself it was as soothing as a melancholy incantation, an intoxicating melody, with irresistibly suggestive thoughts, the soul-throbs of a sensitive artist whose quivering nerves vibrate with an intensity that fills you with a painful ecstasy." [p. 198, Robert Baldick translation]

The critic and translator Barbara Johnson has emphasized Mallarmé's influence on twentieth-century French criticism and theory:

"It was largely by learning the lesson of Mallarmé that critics like Roland Barthes came to speak of 'the death of the author' in the making of literature. 

Rather than seeing the text as the emanation of an individual author's intentions, structuralists and deconstructors followed the paths and patterns of the linguistic signifier, paying new attention to syntax, spacing, intertextuality, sound, semantics, etymology, and even individual letters. 

The theoretical styles of Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, and especially Jacques Lacan also owe a great deal to Mallarmé's 'critical poem.'"[13]

Un Coup de Dés[edit]

Mallarmé around 1890.

It has been suggested that "much of Mallarmé's work influenced the conception of hypertext, with his purposeful use of blank space and careful placement of words on the page, allowing multiple non-linear readings of the text. This becomes very apparent in his work Un coup de dés."[14][self-published source]

In 1990, Greenhouse Review Press published D. J. Waldie's American translation of Un Coup de Dés in a letterpress edition of 60 copies, its typography and format based on examination of the final (or near final) corrected proofs of the poem in the collection of Harvard's Houghton Library.

Prior to 2004, Un Coup de Dés was never published in the typography and format conceived by Mallarmé. In 2004, 90 copies on vellum of a new edition were published by Michel Pierson et Ptyx. This edition reconstructs the typography originally designed by Mallarmé for the projected Vollard edition in 1897 and which was abandoned after the sudden death of the author in 1898. All the pages are printed in the format (38 cm by 28 cm) and in the typography chosen by the author. The reconstruction has been made from the proofs which are kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, taking into account the written corrections and wishes of Mallarmé and correcting certain errors on the part of the printers Firmin-Didot.

A copy of this edition is in the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand. Copies have been acquired by the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet and University of California - Irvine, as well as by private collectors. A copy has been placed in the Museum Stéphane Mallarmé at Vulaines-sur-Seine, Valvins, where Mallarmé lived and died and where he made his final corrections on the proofs prior to the projected printing of the poem.[15][16]

In 2012, the French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux published The Number and the Siren, a rigorous attempt at 'deciphering' the poem on the basis of a unique interpretation of the phrase 'the unique Number, which cannot be another.'[17]

In 2015, Wave Books published A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, a dual-language edition of the poem, translated by Robert Bononno and Jeff Clark (designer). Another dual-language edition, translated by Henry Weinfield, was published by University of California Press in 1994.

The poet and visual artist Marcel Broodthaers created a purely graphical version of Un coup de Dés, using Mallarmé's typographical layout but with the words replaced by black bars. In 2018, Apple Pie Editions published un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard: translations by Eric Zboya, an English edition that transforms the poem not only through erasure, but through graphic imaging software.

The British author Robert Fraser published a short story entitled Mallarmé Matters in 2018, describing the shared passion of a Scottish poet and a Moroccan-born francophone literary critic for the poetry of Mallarmé [1].

Selected works[edit]

References and sources[edit]

References
  1. ^ "Mallarmé, Stéphane". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. n.d. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Mallarmé". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Mallarmé". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  4. ^ Colloque Mallarmé, p. 41.
  5. ^ Documents Stéphane Mallarmé, p. 12.
  6. ^ Bredin, Jean-Denis (1986). The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. G. Braziller. p. 278.
  7. ^ Chadwick, Charles (Sep 5, 2021). "Stéphane Mallarmé". Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  8. ^ Conway Morris, Roderick The Elusive Symbolist movement article - International Herald Tribune , March 17, 2007
  9. ^ Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (PDF). Librairie Gallimard (copyright by Nouvelle Revue Française). July 1914.
  10. ^ Stéphane Mallarmé, trans. E.H. and A.M. Blackmore Collected Poems and Other Verse. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2006, p. xxix. ISBN 978-0-19-953792-1
  11. ^ Roger Pearson, Unfolding Mallarme. The development of a poetic art. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-815917-X
  12. ^ "Debussy: the man who broke the mould". independent. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  13. ^ Barbara Johnson, "Translator's Note" to Stéphane Mallarmé, Divagations, trans. Johnson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, pg. 301
  14. ^ Balla, Bonaventure (2012). Symbolism, Synesthesia, and Semiotics, Multidisciplinary Approach. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 163–165. ISBN 978-1-4771-5544-8 – via Google Books.[self-published source]
  15. ^ Mallarmé, Stéphane (1998). Oeuvres Complètes I (in French). Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. p. LXIII. ISBN 9782070115587.
  16. ^ "La maison du poète". Musée Stéphane Mallarmé (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  17. ^ "The Number and the Siren - Urbanomic". Urbanomic. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
Sources
  • Hendrik Lücke: Mallarmé - Debussy. Eine vergleichende Studie zur Kunstanschauung am Beispiel von „L'Après-midi d'un Faune“. (= Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, Bd. 4). Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8300-1685-9.

Further reading[edit]

  • Giulia Agostini (ed.). Mallarmé. Begegnungen zwischen Literatur, Philosophie, Musik und den Künsten, Passagen, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7092-0297-5.
  • Arnar, A.S. The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist's Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
  • Badiou, Alain. "A Poetic Dialectic: Labîd ben Rabi'a and Mallarmé" and "Philosophy of the Faun". In Handbook of Inaesthetics. Trans. Alberto Toscano. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 46–56, 122–41.
  • Bersani, Leo. The Death of Stéphane Mallarmé. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  • Blanchot, Maurice. The Space of Literature. Trans. Ann Smock. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
  • Blanchot, Maurice. "The Absence of the Book". In The Infinite Conversation. Trans. Susan Hanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 422–436.
  • Blanchot, Maurice. "The Myth of Mallarmé". In The Work of Fire. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. 26–42.
  • Blanchot, Maurice. "The Silence of Mallarmé", "Mallarmé's Silence", and "Mallarmé and the Novel". In Faux Pas. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 99-106, 107–111, 165–171.
  • Blanchot, Maurice. "The Book to Come". In The Book to Come. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 224–244.
  • Bowie, Malcolm. Mallarmé and the Art of Being Difficult. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
  • Chisholm, Alan Rowland. Towards Hérodiade. A Literary Genealogy. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934; New York, AMS Press, 1979.
  • Chisholm, Alan Rowland. Mallarmé's L'après-midi d'un faune: An Exegetical and Critical Study. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Australian Humanities Research Council, 1958; in French translation: Brussels, J. Antoine, 1974.
  • Chisholm, Alan Rowland. Mallarmé's Grand Oeuvre. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1962.
  • Cohn, Robert Greer. Toward the Poems of Mallarmé. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.
  • Cohn, Robert Greer. Mallarmé’s Masterwork: New Findings. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1966. [A commentary on "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard".]
  • Cohn, Robert Greer. Mallarmé, Igitur. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
  • Cohn, Robert Greer. Mallarmé’s Prose Poems: A Critical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Cohn, Robert Greer. Mallarmé’s Divagations: A Guide and Commentary. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.
  • Cohn, Robert Greer, ed. Mallarmé in the Twentieth Century. Associate ed. Gerard Gillespie. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
  • Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
  • Derrida, Jacques. Paper Machine. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. Èditions Galilée, 2001.
  • Jameson, Fredric. "Mallarmé Materialist". In The Modernist Papers. London: Verso, 2007. 313–41.
  • Johnson, Barbara. "Crise de Prose". In Défigurations du langage poétique: La seconde révolution baudelairienne. Paris: Flammarion, 1979. 161–211.
  • Johnson, Barbara. "Allegory's Trip-Tease: 'The White Waterlily'" and "Poetry and Performative Language: Mallarmé and Austin". In The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. 13–20, 52–66.
  • Johnson, Barbara. "Erasing Panama: Mallarmé and the Text of History", "Les Fleurs du Mal Larmé: Some Reflections of Intertextuality", and "Mallarmé as Mother". In A World of Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. 57–67, 116–33, 137–43.
  • Kristeva, Julia. La révolution du langue poétique: l’avant-garde à la fin du XIXe siècle: Lautréamont et Mallarmé. Paris: Seuil, 1974. [Note: Kristeva's commentaries on Mallarmé are largely omitted in the abridged English translation: Revolution in Poetic Language, trans. Margaret Waller, New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.]
  • Lloyd, Rosemary. Mallarmé: The Poet and his Circle. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
  • Mallarmé, Stéphane. Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse. Translated by Peter Manson, Miami University Press, 2012.
  • Meillassoux, Quentin. The Number and the Siren: A Decipherment of Mallarme's Coup De Des. Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2012.
  • Millan, Gordon. A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stephane Mallarme. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994.
  • Rancière, Jacques. Mallarmé: The Politics of the Siren. Trans. Steve Corcoran. London and New York: Continuum, 2011.
  • Richard, Jean-Pierre. L’univers imaginaire de Mallarmé. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1961.
  • Robb, Graham. Unlocking Mallarmé. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
  • Ronat, Mitsou. Un coup de dès...pour la première fois grandeur nature, in La Quinzaine Littéraire, numéro 319, 1980.
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul. Mallarmé, or the Poet of Nothingness. Trans. Ernest Sturm. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.
  • Sethna, K. D. (1987). The obscure and the mysterious: A research in Mallarmé's symbolic poetry. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.
  • Scherer, Jacques. Le "Livre" de Mallarmé: Premieres recherches sur des documents inedits. Paris: Gallimard, 1957.
  • Williams, Heather. Mallarmé's ideas in language Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004.

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이도리 슌히코 「의식과 본질」(4)
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이전의 제3장에서는, 이통은 보편적 「본질」인 「머히어」가 단순한 추상 개념이 아니고, 실재하는 것으로 파악할 수 있는 3개의 종류로 나누었다. 여기서는 첫 번째 유형인 '마히어'를 심층 의식으로 파악하려는 시인 마라루메와 중국 송이의 유자들의 접근에 대해 이야기한다.
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시인·릴케는 「물건」을 그 구체성의 극한에서 파악하려고 했다. 개별적인 리얼리티 「후위야」로서의 본질을 「의식의 피라미드」의 저변, 즉 심층의식에서 파악하려고 했다.

말라루메의 '물'의 '본질'은 릴케와는 반대로 개인의 개체성을 무화한 곳에 '냉혹하게 반짝이는 별빛'처럼 떠오르는 보편적 '본질' 즉 ' "마히어"를 언어적 의식의 극북에 요구했다.

일상의 경험적 사물의 세계, 거기서의 사물이나 현상은 「우연성」에 의해 항상 유동해 계속, 촛불과 꽃 피는 흐트러진다. 

말라루메는 '절대언어'라 불리는 시적언어로 말함으로써 그 사물을 살해하고 '허무'의 세계에서 무화하고 소멸시킨다. 그리고 그 '허무'의 절망 후에 그가 '미'라고 부르는 세계가 열린다. 「미」의 세계. 시간의 지배, 우연한 桎梏을 초탈한, 영원한 실재로서의 보편적인 「본질」만이 서 있는 곳. 만물이 무생명성 속에 얼어붙어 결정된 얼음의 세계.

그가 사용하는 '절대언어'에 의해 사물은 경험적 차원에서 살해되고, 그 사물의 보편적 '본질'은 '실재하는 것'으로 나타난다. 물론 시인은 보통 언어를 사용하여 시작해야 한다. 그러나 그는 일반 언어를 절대 언어로 사용합니다. 예를 들면 「꽃」이라고 하는 말. 그것이 부르는 것은 매우 평범한 어느 꽃에도 무차별적으로 적용되는 일반적인 "본질"에 의해 정의 된 감각적 꽃의 형태입니다. 그것은 옮기기 쉬운 것. 하지만 시인이 절대언어적으로 '꽃'이라는 말을 발할 때, 존재의 일상적 질서 속에 감각적 실체로 나타나던 꽃이 발음된 단어의 원인이 되는 공기의 진동으로 되어 사라져 간다. 꽃의 감각적 모양의 소실과 함께 꽃을 보고 있는 시인의 주체성도 사라진다. 삶의 흐름이 멈추고 모든 것의 모습이 사라집니다. 이 죽음의 공간의 응고 속에서 일단 사라진 꽃이 형이상학적 실재가 되어 갑자기 일순의 번개에 조명되어 희미하게 떠오르는 것이다. 꽃, 영원한 꽃, 꽃의 영원한 불변의 "본질"이.



중국의 송대의 유자들(주창이나 程頤·程顥兄弟 등)도 또한 보편적 '본질'을 진정으로 실재하는 리얼리티라고 믿고 그것을 심층 의식에서 파악하려고 한다. 그 탐구는 그들의 실천적 측면에서 격렬한 정신 훈련에 기초한 고통의 길이었다. 그 훈련의 방법은 '정좌'와 '궁리'의 두 부분으로 나뉜다.

사람의 마음의 상태에는, 마음이 움직이고 있는 상태인 「기발」과, 마음이 멈추고 있는 상태인 「미발」이 있다. 언뜻 보면 사람의 마음은 끊임없이 계속 움직이는 것처럼 보이지만 실제로는 하나의 마음의 움직임이 약해지고 사라지고 다음 마음의 움직임이 시작된다는 간헐적인 움직임을 계속합니다. A라는 마음의 움직임에서 B라는 마음의 움직임으로 옮기는 동안 약간의 마음의 공백의 점이 생긴다. 이것이 '미발'이다. 일상생활을 보내고 있는 사이에서는, 통상, 차례차례로 마음이 계속 움직이고 있는 것처럼 느끼고 있고(기발 상태), 이 전환의 순간의 조용(미발 상태)은 거의 의식되는 것은 없다.

'정좌'는 첫 단계로서 우선 이 마음과 마음이 바뀌는 순간인 '미발'을 의식적으로 파악하려고 한다. 그리고 두 번째 단계에서 의식으로 잡은 그 '미발'의 상태를 마음 속에서 길게 유지하려고 훈련한다. 수행이 진행되는 가운데 처음에는 마음 속은 '기발' 상태가 대부분이고, 그 속에서 파악되는 '미발'은 뽀뽀뽀리와 순간적이었던 것이 점차 마음 속에서 '미발' 상태가 차지하는 비율이 많아지고, 이윽고 비율은 역전되어, 마음 속에서 「미발」 쪽이 오히려 통상 상태가 되어 「자발」은, 마음의 조용한 「미발」과 「미발」의 사이에 순간적으로 점재하는 경미한 「동」으로 바뀐다. 이것은 우선 표층 의식에서의 마음의 훈련이다.

그리고 의식의 표면상에서 파악한 「미발」의 영역이, 의식의 심층에 깊어져 가고, 마침내 의식의 마지막 일점, ​​의식의 제로 포인트에 도달한다. 표층 의식에 있어서의 「미발」의 수평적인 퍼짐이, 동시에 심층 의식에 있는 의식의 제로 포인트를 향하는 수직적 심화이기도 하다. 의식의 제로 포인트는 마음의 모든 움직임이 종국하는 절대적 「정적」이지만, 이번에는 반대로 모든 마음의 움직임이 거기에서 발출하는 출발점, 의식의 원점으로서 자각해야 한다. 여기에 이르러 처음으로 '정좌'의 경로가 완성된다.

이 제로 포인트의 절대적 「정적」의 측면을 「무극」이라고 하고, 모든 「동」이 시작되는 출발점으로서의 측면을 「태극」이라고 한다. 즉 주자의 「무극이 태극」(무극으로 하여 태극)이다.

송학에서는 의식과 존재는 불가분한 것이다. 의식의 영점은 즉 존재의 영점. 존재의 '무극'이 그대로 존재의 '태극'으로 돌아가 거기에서 형이상적 '미발'이 형이하적 '기발'로 발동해 간다. 이 미묘한 일점에, 전 존재계를 통합적으로 기초 짓는 순수한 형이상학적 「리」가 성립해, 이 절대적 「리」는 자기 분절을 반복하면서, 무수한 개별적인 「리」가 되어 우리 의 경험적 세계의 사물에 「본질」적 근거를 준다. 그리고 「리」란, 보편적 「본질」. 그것은 개념이 아니라 "실재하는" 보편적인 "본질"이다.



궁극적 일자인 '태극'은 유일한 '리'이지만, 이 '태극'은 만물의 하나하나에도 말하자면 작은 '태극'으로 내재한다. 그러나 그들은 유일한 '태극' 자체와 다르게 되어 개별 사물의 작은 '태극'이 되는 것은 아니다. 이 유일한 '태극', '리'에는 형이상적 측면과 형이하적 측면이 있으며, 그것이 우리의 경험적 세계에 나타날 때, 우리 평범한 사람의 눈에는 형이하적 측면밖에 보이지 않는다. 그러나 그 '태극'의 형이상적 측면은 경험적 세계에서도 유지되고 있다. 다만 보통 사람들에게는 경험적 사물의 깊이에 몰두하는 이 형이상적 측면이 보이지 않는다. 표층 의식에 있어서, 형이하적 측면에 있어서의 「리」는 무수한, 각각 다른 구상적 「리」가 되어 나타난다. 사람에게는 사람의, 사람만 고유의 「리」, 꽃에는 꽃의 「리」라고 하는 식으로.

「궁리」란 제1단계로서, 이러한 개별 사물의 「리」의 추구로부터 들어간다. 처음에는 존재세계 전체의 심층구조를 전망하지 않고, 단지 눈앞에 있는 이것의 사물의 고찰로 시작하기 때문에, 개개의 「이」가 가만히 보일 뿐이다. 이 단계에서는 개별 '리'의 형이하적 측면밖에 보이지 않는다. 그러나 이렇게 개개의 '리'의 추구를 쌓아가는 가운데, 어느 때 갑자기 어떤 종류의 이상체험, 관통체험이 그 사람에게 찾아온다. 갑자기 심층 의식이 개척되어, 「태극」의 의식과 존재의 제로 포인트로부터 무수한 사물이 흘러나오고, 모든 「리」의 형이상적 측면이, 그 궁극의 일점에 있어서 일거로 보여 버리는 체험이 일어난다 . 그것을 '탈연 관통'이라고 한다. 그것은 존재의 재심층의 개현이며, 「궁리」를 행하는 그 사람에게 있어서 의식의 최심층이 개척되는 체험이다. 수련을 통해 사물을 그런 형태로, 그러한 차원에서 볼 수 있는 의식의 본연의 자세를 획득할 수 있었을 때, 전 존재계의 원점인 「태극」그 자체, 「리」그 자체로부터 퍼지는 존재계 전체를 일거로 전망하는 것 수 있습니다.

그리고 이상하게도 만물의 유일한 궁극적 '본질'인 '태극'은 동시에 모든 사물의 '본질'이 없이 돌아가 소멸하는 전 존재계의 제로 포인트 '무극'이기도 하다.



말라루메의 '본질' 탐구와 송유의 '궁리'는 같은 형태에 속하는 것이다. 그러나 말라루메는 경험적 사물을 '절대언어'에 의해 살해하고, 그 '허무' 뒤에 사물의 영원불변의 '본질'이 형이상학적 실재가 되어서 나타나는 모습이었다. 그러나 송유는 경험적 사물을 죽이는 것이 아니라, 약동하는 삶 속에 개개의 '본질'을 찾아내고, 그 탐구의 앞에, 보다 고차의 형이상적 절대무인 '무극'을 만난다. 거기에는 허무나 절망의 그림자는 없다. 「무극」은 즉 「태극」. 모든 존재가 거기에서 솟아나는 시작점이기도 하다. 유일하게 절대적인 '본질'이 개별 사물의 형이하적 '본질'을 만들어 낸다. 의식에서도 존재에서도.

'무극이 태극' 무극이면서 동시에 그것이 그대로 태극이다고 주코는 말한다. 없음, 즉, 있음. 이치통은 '리'의 형이상적 극한에 있어서의 무와유의 이 모순적 상속 가운데 송학적 '본질' 파악의 동양적 성격을 봐야 할 것일지도 모른다.

 

 


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.

"A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?"-The New York Times

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE

There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement- leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it's clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this planet, they are too often missing from the proverbial table. More than a problem of bias, it's a dynamic that sets us up for failure. To change everything, we need everyone.

All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States-scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race-and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.

Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save.

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Emily Atkin .Xiye Bastida .Ellen Bass.Colette Pichon Battle .Jainey K. Bavishi .Janine Benyus .adrienne maree brown .Regine Clement .Abigail Dillen .Camille T. Dungy .Rhiana Gunn-Wright .Joy Harjo .Katharine Hayhoe .Mary Annaise Heglar .Jane Hirshfield . Mary Anne Hitt .Ailish Hopper.Tara Houska, Zhaabowekwe .Emily N. Johnston .Joan Naviyuk Kane .Naomi Klein .Kate Knuth .Ada Lim n .Louise Maher-Johnson .Kate Marvel .Gina McCarthy .Anne Haven McDonnell. Sarah Miller .Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset .Susanne C. Moser .Lynna Odel.Sharon Olds.Mary Oliver .Kate Orff .Jacqui Patterson .Leah Penniman .Catherine Pierce . Marge Piercy .Kendra Pierre-Louis .Varshini . Prakash .Janisse Ray .Christine E. Nieves Rodriguez .Favianna Rodriguez .Cameron Russell .Ash Sanders .Judith D. Schwartz .Patricia Smith . Emily Stengel .Sarah Stillman .Leah Cardamore Stokes .Amanda Sturgeon .Maggie Thomas .Heather McTeer Toney .Alexandria Villasenor .Alice Walker. Amy Westervelt .Jane Zelikova
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She is founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and founder and CEO of Ocean Collectiv, a consulting firm for conservation solutions. Recently, Dr. Johnson co-created the Blue New Deal, a road map for including the ocean in climate policy. Previously she was executive director of the Waitt Institute, developed policy at the EPA and NOAA, served as a leader of the March for Science, and taught as an adjunct professor at New York University. Dr. Johnson earned a BA from Harvard University in environmental science and public policy and a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in marine biology. She publishes widely and blogs for Scientific American. Her public speaking has included TED, the Smithsonian, and the United Nations. Elle named her one of “27 women leading the charge to protect our environment.” Outside magazine called her “the most influential marine biologist of our time.” Her mission is to build community around solutions to our climate crisis. For more: ayanaelizabeth.com and @ayanaeliza.

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Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is an author, strategist, teacher, and one of 15 “women who will save the world,” according to Time magazine. Her books on climate include the bestselling anthology All We Can Save (2020), The Drawdown Review (2020), the New York Times bestseller Drawdown (2017), and Between God & Green (2012). She co-founded and leads The All We Can Save Project with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, in support of women leading on climate, and she co-hosts the podcast A Matter of Degrees, telling stories for the climate curious with Dr. Leah Stokes. Previously, Dr. Wilkinson was the principal writer and editor-in-chief at the climate solutions nonprofit Project Drawdown. She speaks widely, including a TED Talk on climate and gender equality with nearly 2 million views. A former Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Wilkinson holds a doctorate in geography and environment from Oxford. Find her @DrKWilkinson.

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This book contains a wonderful collection of mostly well-written essays on our planetary crisis. However, if you are a while male with a passion for planetary wellness, you may want to skip the foreword presented by apparently anti-male feminist editors, which could dissuade you from reading the essays and learning many valuable lessons from inspirational female writers. Maybe the climate crisis is not gender neutral and maybe the dominant public voices on the climate crisis have been white men, but disparaging men, many of whom exhibit both masculine and feminine characteristics, may not promote a truly collaborate approach. Yes, the climate crisis is a leadership crisis, and certainly requires more characteristically feminine leadership but let’s make this a collaborate rather than a divisive aspiration.
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Sep 02, 2020Andrea McDowell rated it really liked it
Shelves: groundhog-day, climate, 2020, feminism, green
*108th climate book*

To begin with: I can't claim to be unbiased or a disinterested observer (but, no one can). No one reads 108 books about climate change without deep investment, and most of the contributors in this collection I am already familiar with; if not in books, then in newsletters, articles, scientific papers, youtube series, podcasts, documentaries, or TED talks. All We Can Save is practically a roll-call of 2020 Climate Heroines (Katherine Hayhoe! Dr. Wilkinson! Dr. Johnson! Amy Westervelt, Dr. Marvel, Adrienne Maree Brown, Mary Anne Hitt, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Emily Atkin, Varshini Prakash, Susanne Moser, Mary Annaise Heglar, Leah Stokes! etc.), and I was excited enough to read it before my NetGalley request was approved (so yes, I received a free electronic copy in exchange for a review; and then I bought a copy in actual paper because it's really good and ebooks give me a headache). 

There was really no chance I wasn't going to love it, and, spoiler alert, I do. The editors have done a great job in compiling climate perspectives that centre black and indigenous women climate leaders, and address everything from climate grief and staying motivated, through advocacy strategies and how to talk about climate change, through specific highly technical solutions like regenerative ocean farming and soil conservation techniques. The essays are interwoven with fabulous poems, by poets like Ada Limon, Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, Alice Walker and Sharon Olds. Nothing is going to make me more likely to buy a book, statistically speaking, than the combination of amazing poetry and climate action. Add in some feminism and I'm done for.

There's a lot to love about this essay collection, and only one glaring disappointment.

To begin with, if by some chance you're not familiar with at least half of the names in the contributors' list, you're in luck: you'll get a beautifully written, elevator-pitch-length summary of their work, from Katherine Hayhoe's advice on talking about climate change, to Rhiana Gunn-Wright's work on the Green New Deal, Mary Ann Hitt's work closing hundreds of coal plants, Emily Atkin's climate journalism (see Heated), Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, and more. If you want to know who is doing what on climate action and why, so you can figure out whose work to follow, participate in and promote: start here.

There were no bad essays, and many of them were just breathtaking. Pretty much every piece in Feel was a standout. Under the Weather (Ash Sanders) made me cry, and of course anything by Mary Annaise Heglar is wonderful (Home is Always Worth It). Sarah Stillman's Like the Monarch uses animal migration as a positive analogy for human migration and provides a beautiful counter-point to fascism and xenophobic rhetoric. Heaven or High Water by Sarah Miller, previously published on Popula, is a hilarious and eye-opening first-person account of climate impacts on the Miami Beach real estate market. I didn't necessarily expect to read pieces on mobilizing fashion models or the 1% to foster the revolution, but I enjoyed reading them. 

None of this leaves a lot of obvious room for disappointment, but here it is, and it might not have been so glaring for me if I weren't reading Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice at the same time:

The book beautifully centres indigenous and black leadership, the importance of women, the need to build in class and income disparities and analysis, considers climate displacement from the global south, and in general considers thoughtfully and in depth every marginalized community but one: disabled people.

As a type 1 diabetic and a single mom to a disabled teen, that does sting. Worse, it didn't have to be that way: many of the leaders they discuss struggled with health issues or disabilities of various kinds (Adrienne Rich had arthritis, Rachel Carson died of cancer, Audre Lorde had cancer and vision loss, Mary Oliver struggled with PTSD, Octavia Butler was dyslexic, etc.). Greta Thunberg is autistic, for heaven's sake, and calls her autism a superpower. Chances are good that a bunch of this book's contributors have disabilities or chronic illnesses, but you would never know it from the text. Both All We Can Save and Care Work  discuss Octavia Butler's Earthseed books, but only Care Work acknowledges and discusses that Lauren Olamina was disabled, and it was her disability that made her an effective leader.

There were so many natural opportunities to bring up disability and disability justice, and they were all overlooked.  One of the essays, At the Intersections by Jacqui Patterson, discussed in passing one person with hearing loss and a few others with AIDS, as people who need care and assistance because of climate change, which is valid and true, but nothing in the book discussed disability or chronic illness in terms of leadership or contribution--despite Greta, despite the disabled writers quoted. I hope the editors have future editions in which this can be remedied, because as true as it is that disabled people are often overlooked in emergency response planning and exposed to much higher mortality risks from climate impacts and should be included on that basis, it's also true that disability justice has a lot to offer climate activism.

As just one example, what would climate activism (and environmentalism and conservation work more generally) look like if we could release our cultural vice grip on cure as the only valid goal or outcome? Think-pieces on the futility of our work, given that we're past the point of being able to return our world to the pre-industrial condition of 1550 or pre-colonial condition of 1450, and the grief and difficulty of loving a broken world, allowing yourself to care about environments that don't look like they used to, etc., are as common in green publications as kentucky bluegrass in a Canadian suburb, and about as worthwhile. Do you know who has grappled already with knowing that some things can't be fixed, can't be cured, and yet are worth loving, and offer lives worth living with lots of joy and community? Disabled people. Ask them (/us).

Or not, but, you know, you're suffering needlessly, and this will affect your work. Disability justice advocates have expertise and relevant skills for climate work, and it is such a shame that this otherwise very comprehensive collection didn't take advantage.

If I could have given this 4 1/2 stars, I would have; I wanted to round it up to 5, but dammit, they left out my kid. 

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Jan 14, 2021H. rated it liked it
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I'm very glad that so many have found this book worthwhile, but something about it just failed to move me: It was repetitive and relentlessly US-centric despite having a diverse array of contributors. Short biographies at the beginning of each piece would have given important context to the authors; instead each essay had to serve as the author's biography, keeping the information in the essay necessarily surface-level. Large swathes of it read like the ghost-written memoirs of politicians and Olympic athletes, superficial and ultimately meaningless. It felt like a lot of influential people merely introducing themselves to me. I know from books like Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass that environmental essays can be stronger and deeper than most found in this collection.

Many of the poems were very good, and I'll be sharing them with my students in our climate change lessons. Many of the statistics were useful as well. I think this book is better picked apart for pieces than read straight through. (less)
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Sep 16, 2020Anna rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
This book is a powerhouse of female leaders in the climate sector. Never in my life have I read such a powerful, compassionate, creative, and honest book that beautifully and thoughtfully weaves a diverse compilation of voices where every reader will find something that resonates. I feel very fortunate to have gotten an advanced copy of this magnanimous work.

Drs. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson brought together the voices I didn’t know I desperately needed to hear. It is a body of work compiled and written with care and fervor. Each woman shows and describes different facets of the climate crisis, many of which I was unaware of or hadn’t considered.

Read it and have all of your friends, family, acquaintances, enemies, and coworkers read it too. Let this book enlighten you. Let it inform you. Let it gob-smack you. Let it encourage you, empower you, hold you. Mostly though, let it bring you to act and see how each of us has an important and vital role in the climate movement. (less)
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Nick DeFiesta
Sep 27, 2020Nick DeFiesta rated it it was amazing
Woof. What a tour de force. I've heard some people call this a book about female climate people, which somewhat misses the point. It's a book about massive suffering and our capacity to mitigate it; about hurricanes and soil, monarchs and whales, Miami realtors and Indian migrants; about fear and hope and what it means to "be alive in a moment that matters so much." And yes, the voices are all women, and it's clear how much stronger the book and the climate movement is for it.

If you've been engaged on climate stuff, you'll probably have read some of this before, but that didn't take away any of my enjoyment. (My only real quibble, as a former editor, is that many of the essayists directly addressed the same ideas and themes and I felt portions of it could have been condensed to avoid such overlap.)

Bottom line: read this book. Make your friends and family and peers and enemies read this book. And then — following the example of each and every writer in this book — let's roll up our sleeves and get to work. (less)
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Jennifer (Insert Lit Pun)
Apr 20, 2022Jennifer (Insert Lit Pun) added it
Here are just a few of my favorite moments from this extraordinarily powerful anthology:

“Here are two truths: To some of us, much of the time, it feels exceedingly unlikely that humans will survive this—yet it’s a simple fact that if we respond robustly, we can survive this…Anything that we do this year or next is worth ten of the same thing ten years from now…This makes us, however unintuitively, the most powerful people who have ever lived.” – Emily N. Johnston

“For this is noble and necessary work, and it is impossible to do alone.” – Kate Knuth

“The capacity of the human mind to rationalize, to compartmentalize, and to be easily distracted...might explain the way serious people can simultaneously grasp how close we are to an irreversible tipping point and still regard the only people who are calling for this to be treated as an emergency as unserious and unrealistic.” – Naomi Klein

“It isn’t a matter of moving climate change further up our priority list. The reason we care about it is because it already affects everything that’s at the top of our priority list….To care about a changing climate we don’t have to be a tree hugger or an environmentalist (thought it certainly helps); as long as we are a human alive today, then who we already are, and what we already care about, gives us all the reasons we need.” – Katharine Hayhoe

“And yet when we talk about climate change, there’s often a hidden resignation—like, of course we harmed the Earth. And when we talk about acting on it, there’s also an undercurrent: that it will require a level of sacrifice that is worth it, but just barely. What if, instead, the story we tell about climate change is that it is an opportunity?” – Kendra Pierre-Louis

“I lived next to the I-880 highway, which carries the highest volume of truck traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area as it slices through communities of color. In contrast, the nearby I-580, which cuts through more affluent and White communities, did not allow trucks. Those communities were protected, while we ingested toxic diesel fumes that cut our life spans.” – Favianna Rodriguez

“Indigenous peoples hold 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity.” – Tara Houska

“Sixteen percent of all premature deaths across the world are the result of exposure to air pollution—almost nine million human beings annually, more than those killed by tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS combined. It’s serious business…Climate change is not a faraway problem that no one can fix.” – Gina McCarthy

“Cultivate grounded hope…This is an act of rebellion against the extinction of soul.” – Susanne C. Moser

“Everyone lives downstream and downwind.” – Louise Maher-Johnson

“The agricultural productivity of the Great Plains decreased about 64 percent after just twenty-eight years of tillage by Europeans…The truth is that for thousands of years Black people have had a sacred relationship with soil that far surpasses our 246 years of enslavement and 75 years of sharecropping in the United states. For many, this period of land-based terror has devastated that connection.” – Leah Penniman

“There is also a psychological edge we’re all living on. We know that we’re living in a world that is being devastated but also one replete with the beauty and power of life. We live on the boundary of deciding to make positive contributions although we know we are complicit in the destruction.” – Janisse Ray

“The reality is it is too much work for one generation. Those of you who are retired and have more time on your hands, or with children you are no longer caring for, or those of you with additional resources—consider becoming a climate activist. Can you imagine how beautiful a movement led by children and grandparents would be?” – Alexandra Villaseñor

“When we start to see the choices that are not available, we can begin to see the role of political power in our daily lives. Who decides what options are available for us to choose in the first place?” – Leah Cardamore Stokes

“It could be said that the bridge is either collapsing beneath us, or being made as we walk together, in the long twilight hours when one civilization gives way to another.” – Geneen Marie Haugen

“So where do we go from here? First, take a breath. It’s a lot.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
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Tom Scott
Dec 22, 2020Tom Scott rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
A few months ago a friend of mine asked if I wanted to be part of what she called her “circle” to read and discuss a book she really, really liked. She's always up to something interesting and I like reading so what the heck, yeah, sure. And that’s how I found myself reading this "characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist” collection of essays about the climate crisis and its movement as part of a book club with four women.

Our book club Zoomed every Tuesday evening for 10 weeks to discuss our thoughts (and, um, feelings) prompted by three somewhat open-ended questions. At the first meeting I was feeling really out of place and a bit nervous since, well, I’m not a woman. Plus I was mostly ignorant about the subject—I didn’t comprehend there was an established climate movement culture much less understand the nuances, history, politics, challenges, and direction(s) of said movement. And the potential value of a feminist perspective to the climate crisis? I couldn’t fully understand that question.

So it’s not surprising that I also didn't comprehend the very first open-ended question asked in our first meeting: "Do you think of yourself as a climate feminist?” Total Blank. Nothing. A low-level dread boiled over to panic as beads of sweat formed on my masculine head. I mumbled the shortest and most honest word I could think of—“no.” Well damn, I thought that might be it, I was going to be voted off the island after only one week. But in fact, it turns out none of us identified as "climate feminists" for reasons that were varied and illuminating. Beads of sweat evaporated and over the next couple of weeks my discomfort at being the odd, um, man out dissipated, and by, say, the third week, I felt that maybe I actually did belong in this group. And by the 10th week, I knew I did. The members of my circle are fun, smart, committed, wonderful people, and don’t seem to mind when I’m a bit clueless. We’ve bonded so much that we're going to continue on as a book club (plus other interesting things we have up our collective sleeves).

Anyhow, back to the book. The feminist perspective was interesting but, at least initially, it really wasn't the book’s main value. But the breadth of subjects covered functioned well as a 2020 climate crisis primer, something I didn’t know I needed but I did. And after reading all the essays and listening to the members of my circle I now sense there might be a revolutionary need for a "characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist” approach to the crisis (not to mention the need to include indigenous voices). So, call me a climate feminist!

Book 4 stars, circle +1 Star. If you can get in a circle, do so. (less)
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Steve
Jul 26, 2021Steve rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: non-fiction, favorites, climate-nature-anthropocene
Wow!

Buy it, read it, share it ... and repeat.

Powerful stuff on climate change - no, the climate crisis, an important ... no, the dominant issue of our age (and our future). And one of the better tools for getting one's mind wrapped around the breadth and scope and pervasiveness of the environmental injustices that got us to this point and how important environmental justice will be to stemming (and, hopefully, someday, reversing) the tide.

We can't address the climate crisis if we don't talk about it, and this is a great vehicle for stimulating the conversation. Moreover, by including so many different voices and topics and styles and perspectives, it not only offers an opportunity for everyone to find their place ... or answer the question: but what difference can I make?, ... but it helps broaden our (all too narrow) thinking about the challenges to come.

A word of warning: as discussed in the book, one of the impediments to (and challenges in) reading/learning about the climate crisis is that it's profoundly depressing and potentially paralyzing and destabilizing. But the better books (and essays), such as this one, effectively integrate the concept of hope for the future - because, well, otherwise, we'll never rise to the challenge. But, despite its grace and beauty and warmth and potency, the book is hard work, it's a lot to digest, it's painful and raw and angry (and appropriately so) ... but, ultimately, it's worth it.

Again, if we can't talk about (climate change and) the accelerating climate crisis ... and think about it ... we can't organize ourselves to do something about it.

Full disclosure 1: I tend to steer away from essay collections and anthologies, but ... in this case ... that would have been a bigger mistake than not reading this earlier, in hardback.

Full disclosure 2: I've never fully appreciated poetry, but I found that the selection of poetry employed here was sublime ... emotive ... and incredibly effective.

Full disclosure 3: I've read a fair amount of stuff from a number of the voices included in the collection. And, individually and collectively, their contributions were nicely done. But the beauty (for me) in the collection was the introduction to scores of new voices (and issues). Again, wow.

I'll be adding this to the list of books I've been recommending to my students (and anyone else who will listen). (less)
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Sam Griffiths
Dec 28, 2020Sam Griffiths rated it it was amazing
This was an amazing, intense read for me. This book is a collection of essays and thoughts from a variety of scientists and activists, all women, in the climate change space. It's educational, heart-wrenching, and inspirational. It's full of clear examples of climate change's devastating effects happening today and how people are fighting to build a better world at a variety of levels of government and across a spectrum of circumstances.

I've spent the better part of the last 5+ years trying to learn and step farther into environmental activism and it's been a rough ride. Depending on your circumstances, this journey can be incredibly difficult and lonely. This book grand-slams the trifecta message that
1) This issue is very serious. We are experiencing its negative effects now and it's getting worse.
2) There is an overwhelming amount of data and evidence to support the reality of climate change, as well as how we can address it.
3) Those who are fighting to address this are not alone. This is a growing community. Whether you're a high school teenager, a retiree, a mom, or a middle aged office worker. There is something you can do. There are people who are excited to have you on board, who care about you, and are already working to build a better tomorrow for all of us.

Again, this book is a super inspiring read based in real life, real experience, and real solutions. I listened to this in audio and am ordering a physical copy so I can continue to reference it. I have new personal heroes after reading it. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who wants to build on their understanding of climate change and the movement to address it. (less)
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Leah
Sep 14, 2020Leah rated it it was amazing
Shelves: women, climate
Climate change can be so overwhelming. Yet, the fact is there is still so much we can do to stop this crisis. This is an amazing new collection by something like 60 women working on climate change. I got to read an early copy and was blown away. There is art, poetry, inspiring stories. I felt like we can tackle this problem after reading this book. I really recommend it if you are freaked out and want to know what we can do: talk about climate change in our daily lives, change policy, support independent climate journalists, write to our representatives, take to the streets.

There is so much left that we can save! Inspiring. (less)
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Andreana
Oct 07, 2020Andreana rated it it was amazing
Shelves: sustainability, women, non-fiction
A truly essential read for anyone thinking about the future of the planet! Three cheers for more feminine leadership in the climate crisis.
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b.andherbooks
Mar 31, 2022b.andherbooks rated it it was amazing
Shelves: essays, poetry, non-fiction, book-club, desk-reference
I read many of these essays/poems for a work book club on Climate Change, and of all the books we've read so far in over a year this has been my favorite. Intersectional, focusing on women and marginalized people, many who do not have an option to "move" or invest in increasingly gentrified green tech/building. The breadth of contributors is excellent, and this would make a fantastic desk reference for anyone interested in having some hope and a will to work towards solutions in this ongoing crisis.

I also appreciated poetry, art, and pop culture were included with the science. My favorite essay thus far was "Wakanda Doesn't Have Suburbs." (less)
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Michelle Kim
Oct 04, 2020Michelle Kim rated it liked it
Netgalley review.

I was super excited about this book because I think it discussed the climate crises we are living in with the urgency we should have. I also really appreciated that the movement gave credit to where credit is due, emphasizing that the representation we have in activism wrongly centers white people. I really liked the mix of essays and poetry.

Each essay is moving, but I did think it became repetitive after awhile because essays were repeating similar ideas and topics. I think this book could have benefited from including more information as well. Still, it was really great and I think it will open a lot of minds into the work that needs to be done if we as humans want to survive. (less)
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Alissa
Sep 20, 2021Alissa rated it liked it
Shelves: race-and-justice, feminism
Lots of gems, education, and inspiration but also lots of essays that read like nonprofit marketing pamphlets and I’m allergic to that.
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Bryan Alexander
Jan 18, 2021Bryan Alexander rated it really liked it
Shelves: gender, feminism, climate-change
All We Can Save is a collection of writing about climate change. All of the authors are women, and that's the book's intention: to emphasize women's experiences and thoughts on this vast and vital topic. Another key theme is focusing on the roles of black, Latina, and indigenous women. These women are activists, authors, scientists, politicians, and more.

The resulting collection covers a huge range of ground. Geoengineering, the history of climate change, intersectionality by race and gender, practical tips on organizing, the many psychological dimensions of the crisis, Green and Blue New Deals, changing journalistic practices, climate citizenship, urban planning, architecture, underwater construction, classroom teaching, mental health and trauma, mothering, and migration. There's much more, including a handy outline of climate solutions (377ff).

The results are powerful. The book offers an introduction to the climate crisis for those who need it. It also provides inspiration for readers seeking to participate in activism.

I have many questions and thoughts about this. My Kindle copy is quite marked up. In order to not overwhelm you, let me share several here. My intent is not to criticize the book so much as to use it as a way of scrying an emerging socio-political approach to climate change.

1: Across some of the readings is an interesting attitude towards technology. All We Can Save isn't a luddite work, but there's definitely some opposition to tech. An early article asks us to avoid geoengineering (34-5). Another criticizes the popularity of spaceflight stories as being more appealing than narratives about climate change mitigation, and that the former may be "hurting us" (140-1). A third piece distinguishes between technologies and people, implying the latter aren't really part of the former (271). In contrast, there are few positive descriptions of technology, and those are usually quiet, established, and instrumental: scuba gear for underwater work, improved insulation to reduce buildings' carbon footprint.

2: There's a strong tension over economics and class across much of the book. Some articles call for an end to capitalism and the start of a more equal distribution of wealth. Elizabeth Warren is positively name-checked (but not Bernie Sanders, nor Karl Marx). In contrast "Catalytic Capital" asks us to work with the 1%, helping them maintain their riches in order to point them in good directions: "advancing climate solutions requires money." (172) The final outline for climate action is about improving how (post)industrial society works, not overturning its ownership. Indeed, it has a header for "Improve Society - Fostering Equality for All," under which is a sole bullet point about improving access to education and health care. All We Can Save is neither pro- nor anti-capitalist, but a contradictory mix of attitudes along that axis.

3: Overall the book criticizes masculinity. It urges a social shift away from men and male ideals, towards a greater role for women and female identities. That's in wide strokes, but it bears out through the collection. Men lead the system that causes the climate crisis:
in the city
one finds it simple to conceive nothing
but a system, and nothing but a world of men. (Joan Naviyuk Kane, "The Straits," 170)
Another piece complains about "doomer dudes," men who proclaim the futility of climate action "with glee." (279) "They're almost always White men, because only White men can afford to be lazy enough to quit.... on themselves." (280; italics in original)

At the same time while the book praises women, it reaches for gender essentialism at many points. Amy Westervelt's article celebrates women as mothers, both domestically and politically, as "community mothers." (250-1) Another piece praises a "collaborative, holistic, and inclusive approach [a]s distinctly feminine." (297) The concluding Alice Walker poem ends on this note:
& I call on all men
of Earth
to gracefully
and gratefully

stand aside
& let them
(let us)
do so (335)
The "so" is saving the Earth through collective action. This isn't a surprise, given the collection's gynocentric purpose.

Recommended. (less)
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