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Here you can read essays in which Eli Siegel comprehends some of the deepest aspects of people’s emotions, including his classic “The Ordinary Doom” and “The Everlasting Dilemma of a Girl.” There are groundbreaking essays on art. And included, too, are lively discussions about mathematics, the aesthetics of business, jazz, what snobbery comes from, and more.

  • 36 Things about America
  • A Woman Is the Oneness of Aesthetic Opposites
  • Aesthetic Realism Asks Thirty-Five Questions about Mathematics
  • Aesthetic Realism: Three Instances
  • Aesthetic Realism; or, Is a Person an Aesthetic Situation?
  • Aesthetics and the Child
  • Alcoholism; or, You Got to Find the World Interesting
  • Are Feelings Objects? or, The Alienation of Any Time
  • Art as Composition
  • Art as Criticism
  • Art as Drama
  • Art as Energy
  • Art as Ethics
  • Art as Flexibility
  • Art as Happiness
  • Art as History
  • Art as Humor
  • Art as Life
  • Art as Logic
  • Art as Reality
  • Art as Recurrence
  • Art as Rightness
  • Art as Selection
  • Art as the Exquisite
  • Art as, Yes, Humility
  • Biographical Aspects of Not Such Well Known Americans
  • Declaration about Old Age
  • Faugh, Reality!
  • Great Books; and the Kick
  • Hawthorne’s “The Man of Adamant”
  • Husbands and Poems
  • Impediment in Poetry
  • Individuality as Aesthetic Sameness & Difference
  • Known and Unknown: Washington Irving’s “The Stout Gentleman”
  • Liking the World Story
  • Liking the World on an Honest Basis: A Note
  • Literature; a Run, with Some Philosophic Stops
  • On Aesthetic Realism As New
  • On Coming Late
  • Poetry Is the Making One of Opposites
  • Remarks on Acting
  • Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Revisited
  • The Bourgeois Devil
  • The Changing Center
  • The Drama of Hardness and Softness in Painting
  • The Essential Problem
  • The Everlasting Dilemma of a Girl
  • The Immediate Need for Poetry
  • The Opposites as They Happen: A Work on Aesthetic Realism
  • The Ordinary Doom
  • The Question of Pride in Sex
  • The Serious Aspect of Snobbery
  • The State of the Individual
  • The World, as Such, Is Present in Jazz
  • Two Teachings of Aesthetic Realism
  • What Aesthetic Realism Adds to Poetry
  • What Has Aesthetics to Do with Feeling Bad?
  • What Is the Best Punctuation for the Self?
  • Why Does Love Change to Something Else?
  • Why People Don’t Sleep
  • Why a Man Gambles
  • With Acting in Mind

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