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Each week for nearly four decades, Eli Siegel gave lectures on a wide variety of subjects: literature, mind, economics, art, history, the drama, and more. At once scholarly and warm, these lectures illustrate the principle at the basis of Aesthetic Realism, and fundamental to its study: “The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.”

  • A French Critic Looks at Shakespeare, 1860
  • A Poem Is in the World
  • A Statement about Poetry: Some Instances
  • A Thing Has This
  • Aesthetic Realism Doesn’t Mind Being Philosophic
  • Aesthetic Realism Looks at Feeling
  • Aesthetic Realism Looks at Frustration
  • Aesthetic Realism Looks at Things
  • Aesthetic Realism and Education
  • Aesthetic Realism and Expression
  • Aesthetic Realism and Hope
  • Aesthetic Realism and Learning
  • Aesthetic Realism and Love
  • Aesthetic Realism and Music
  • Aesthetic Realism and Nature
  • Aesthetic Realism and People
  • Aesthetics Is the One Way
  • Aesthetics and Worry
  • Animate and Inanimate Are in Music and Conscience
  • Art Is within Science
  • Beginning with Psychiatric Terms: An Aesthetic Realism Consideration.
  • Beginning with Sentences
  • Children as Selves
  • Contempt & World War I
  • Contempt Here and There
  • Criticism Is the Art of Responding to Value
  • Education and Feeling Good
  • Hail, Relation; or, A Study in Poetry
  • Hamlet and Questions
  • Has Poetry Point?
  • Hazlitt Tells of Criticism
  • How Aesthetic Realism Sees Art
  • Humor: Music
  • Imagination Has Emphasis
  • Instinct & Madame de Sévigné
  • Instinct: Beginning with Shelley
  • Intelligence Is You and More
  • Is Hope Worth Money?
  • It Still Moves; or, The Novel
  • Love and Confusion
  • Map to Happiness
  • Mind and Attention
  • Mind and Friends
  • Mind and Intelligence
  • Mind and Memory
  • Mind and People
  • Mind and Schools
  • Music & “Questions for Everyone"
  • Philosophy Consists of Instincts
  • Pleasure and Self-Conflict
  • Poetry I: Imagination Is All This
  • Poetry Is Alphabetical
  • Poetry and Brightness
  • Poetry and Cleverness
  • Poetry and Mischief
  • Poetry and Practicality
  • Poetry and Space
  • Poetry and Technique
  • Poetry and Women
  • Poetry and Words
  • Poetry and the Unconscious
  • Poetry, Atmosphere & Neatness
  • Pretense and Self-Conflict
  • Reading Itself Has to Do with Poetry
  • Reality Includes Sex
  • Romanticism and Guilt
  • So, What Is Bitterness?
  • The Drama of Mind
  • The Known & Unknown Are Kind in Poetry
  • The Opposites Theory
  • The Philosophy of Insomnia
  • The Poetic Trinity; or, Poetry—Whence, How, Whither?
  • The Purpose of Aesthetic Realism
  • The Renaissance Shows Self
  • The Self Is
  • The World, Come to a Point
  • These Speak of Poetry
  • We Approach Poetry Variously
  • What Aesthetic Realism Is & Is Not
  • What Are We Going After?
  • When Does Evil Begin?
  • You Can Gossip Philosophically about Psychology

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