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
- Conflict as Possibility
- Declaration about Old Age
- Faugh, Reality!
- Great Books; and the Kick
- Hawthorne’s “The Man of Adamant”
- Husbands and Poems
- Impediment in Poetry
- Is Your Unconscious Your Friend?
- 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
- Medusa Is a Nice Girl
- On Aesthetic Realism As New
- On Coming Late
- Poetry Is the Making One of Opposites
- Questions for Everyone
- 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 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