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, jazz, what snobbery comes from, and more.
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- 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
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- Biographical Aspects of Not Such Well Known Americans
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- Changing Center, The
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- Declaration about Old Age
- Drama of Hardness and Softness in Painting, The
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- Essential Problem, The
- Everlasting Dilemma of a Girl, The
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- Faugh, Reality!
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- Great Books; and the Kick
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- Hawthorne’s “The Man of Adamant”
- Husbands and Poems
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- Immediate Need for Poetry, The
- Individuality as Aesthetic Sameness & Difference
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- Known and Unknown: Washington Irving’s “The Stout Gentleman”
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- Liking the World on an Honest Basis: A Note
- Liking the World Story
- Literature; a Run, with Some Philosophic Stops
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- On Aesthetic Realism As New
- Opposites as They Happen: A Work on Aesthetic Realism, The
- Ordinary Doom, The
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- Poetry Is the Making One of Opposites
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- Question of Pride in Sex, The
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- Remarks on Acting
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- Serious Aspect of Snobbery, The
- Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Revisited
- State of the Individual, The
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- 36 Things about America
- Two Teachings of Aesthetic Realism
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- What Aesthetic Realism Adds to Poetry
- What Has Aesthetics to Do with Feeling Bad?
- What Is the Best Punctuation for the Self?
- Why a Man Gambles
- Why Does Love Change to Something Else?
- Why People Don’t Sleep
- With Acting in Mind
- Woman Is the Oneness of Aesthetic Opposites, A
- World, as Such, Is Present in Jazz, The