Articles Published Nationwide by Alice Bernstein & Others —and— “The Equality of Man” by Eli Siegel

A New, Updated Edition will be available in 2022

In her introduction Alice Bernstein writes that this book was published “with a sense of urgency and hope; urgency, because racism is still rampant in the world; hope, because there is a true, practical, kind, learnable, and yes—even beautiful—answer.

That answer is in the study of Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by the great American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902-1978), who identified the cause of all human injustice as contempt, the ‘addition to self through the lessening of something else.’ Racism, he explained, does not begin with race, but with the human tendency to have contempt for the world, for everything the self sees as different.

This book documents how, through study of Aesthetic Realism, contempt changes—not into tolerance, but into true respect for other people, and a conviction that we need the difference of the world to be all we can be.”

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