Ellen Reiss is the Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education, appointed by Eli Siegel. The editor of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, she also teaches the professional classes for Aesthetic Realism consultants and associates.
A poet and critic herself, prior to becoming Chairman of Education in 1977 Ms. Reiss taught in the English departments of Hunter College and Queens College of the City University of New York. As editor of the international periodical The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, her commentaries on world events, literature, history, and the human self have been educating people worldwide. She is considered by many people the foremost educator in the world today.
Here are links to several issues of The Right Of, each with her editorial commentary on a different subject. There are many more:
Philosophy & Our Hopes. In this issue we begin to serialize the 1965 Philosophy Consists of Instincts, by Eli Siegel. It is a lecture at once amazing and logically solid; it has might and ease, the everyday and the grand. As Mr. Siegel looks at philosophy, we can see something central distinguishing from all others the philosophy he founded and taught: he shows that the biggest matters in philosophy are equivalent to situations, desires, battles that are present in the life of everyone, often tormentingly, every day…. Read more
Justice and Punctuation. A book about punctuation has been high on the bestseller lists, in both America and Britain. The book is Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss, and its popularity was a huge surprise, including to its author…. Read more
The Sanity of Poetry; or, H.D. Hilda Doolittle, from 1920 on, was intensely troubled and suffered nervous breakdowns. In the 1930s her analyst was Sigmund Freud, and the 1982 biography H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet, by Janice Robinson (Houghton Mifflin), is written from the Freudian point of view…. Read more