© British Society of Aesthetics 2005
A Note on Two Conceptions of Aesthetic Realism
Edward Green, Manhattan School of Music, 120 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
Email: egmusic{at}rcn.com
The term aesthetic realism has recently taken on great currency in analytic philosophical aesthetics. What is not generally known is that the American philosopher Eli Siegel called the philosophy he founded in the 1940s Aesthetic Realism. His philosophy has as its central principle: The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites. Thus, two distinct uses of the same terminology exist, and should not be confused.