Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes:

This new issue of The Right Of is about the most important matter in every person’s life: “Should the World Be Known—or Managed?” There’s an article in which a contemporary woman describes, with depth and also humor, learning from Aesthetic Realism how to see more meaning in people, including those close to her—and the happiness this made for. There is also a poem, beautiful and surprising, by Eli Siegel, about one of the great cities of the world. And there’s more. You’ll have a truly wonderful time reading the current issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known!

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

I am very happy that this issue of TRO includes a poem by Eli Siegel, written in 1930: “Between Rome.” There, musically, the world of history and everydayness is seen in a new way, a way which would become Aesthetic Realism.

We include, too, sections of a paper by Leila Rosen, from an Aesthetic Realism public seminar titled “The Fight in Women about Managing or Understanding—& the Beautiful Answer.”

That fight between the desire to manage and the desire to understand is a form of what Aesthetic Realism shows to be the big battle in everyone: of contempt versus respect. It’s the fight about 1) going after importance through finding reality and humanity a shabby and also cruel piece of work, with oneself superior, versus 2) feeling, The more I want to see truly the meaning things and people have, the more I’ll be myself. That second purpose—while not something people may even know they have—happens to be the purpose of our very lives. Our opinion of ourselves depends on how true to that purpose we are….Read more