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AESTHETIC REALISM AND THE ANSWER TO RACISM
This book is being
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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