September, 2022
Literary Hub's Alan Rossi's piece, Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness lists Riane Eisler's The Chalice and The Blade as one of the best books that grapple with a world in crisis.
The partnership model of society, championed by Riane Eisler in The Chalice and the Blade, allows Li to see a more positive way to interact with the world and an alternative to the destructive, patriarchal society we exist in. - Alan Rossi
Read why Rossi included The Chalice and The Blade in the list of the best books that grapple with a world in crisis below:
"In Leave Society, Li is trying to recover from the negative impacts of a confused society: he is getting off of pharmaceuticals, detoxifying his body, learning to communicate and connect with his parents, and finding answers to why society is the way it is: domineering, male-oriented, and destructive. Li, through much research in an attempt to heal both his body and his mindset, begins to see new ways to live by.
The partnership model of society, championed by Riane Eisler in The Chalice and the Blade, allows Li to see a more positive way to interact with the world and an alternative to the destructive, patriarchal society we exist in. This wide-lens approach is balanced with inward change. Leave Society is a climate change novel in which a major step in correcting the course of the planet is reorienting one’s own mind. Li pointedly rejects neurosis: “[two years ago] He was auto-shit-talking—half-consciously cathecting disapproving thoughts about himself, his family, his friends, and his acquaintances […] ‘Stop shit-talking {person} and focus on {productive activity},’ he’d been saying aloud whenever he became aware of himself doing it.”
Read Rossi's entire article on Literary Hub here.
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