蕾切尔·卡逊“海洋三部曲”中的生命审美观

On Perspective of Life Aesthetics in Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy

蕾切尔·卡逊的“海洋三部曲”不仅是一部海洋生命史诗,更是一部极具美学意蕴的海洋生物“纪实片”。卡逊丰富的自然审美经验塑造了她独特的自然感知力。她突破了传统的人类中心主义范式,把审美对象从普通静态景观扩展到动植物“生命”的美学价值,在自然实践中形成了独特的生命审美观。她以海洋生物为中心,用生态的哲思,追寻生命的意义,折射出对“生”无限的爱与敬意;更以“参与者”和“内在者”的身份,融合多种感官,化身海洋生物本身,用生命感受生命。这无论是审美意象还是审美维度都超乎了当代环境美学家们的参与式审美体验以及“从自然本身欣赏自然”的审美模式。她的“海洋三部曲”为人类对生态圈中其他生命的认知、对人类自身的正确定位以及对生命真理的追寻带来了启示。从环境美学角度挖掘其独特的生命审美观,不仅能唤起读者对生命的爱与美学共鸣,而且对构建合乎生态道德的生命共同体意义深远。

Rachel Carson's sea trilogy is not only an epic of marine life,but also a“documentary”with rich aesthetic implications.Carson's rich natural aesthetic experiences shaped her unique natural perception.She broke through traditional aesthetic paradigm of anthropocentrism,extending aesthetic object beyond the common static landscape to the aesthetic value of“life”of animals and plants.Taking marine life as the protagonists in the sea trilogy,Carson attempted to pursue the truth of the life's meaning with the ecological philosophy,reflecting her love and reverence for life.Besides,as a“participant”and an“insider”,she felt life with the sensory participation as if she had been the marine life herself.It is,in terms of aesthetic object and dimension,beyond contemporary environmental aestheticians'participatory aesthetics and the aesthetic mode of appreciating nature from nature itself.Her sea trilogy inspires human to know more about other lives in the ecosystem,the correct roles of human as well as the pursuit of the truth about life.Interpreting Carson's life aesthetics from the perspective of environmental aesthetics can not only arouse readers’reverence for life and aesthetic resonance,but also provide references for the construction of life community with ecological moral required.