Is the Purpose of Marriage
Shelter from, or Love for, the World?
SATURDAY JUNE 7
11AM - 12:30PM
Taught by There Are Wives:
Consultants Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Pauline Meglino
In this exciting class women learn the basis for a kind, successful marriage—and it is the most romantic and practical thing for a wife to know: “The purpose of marriage is to like the world,” Eli Siegel explained definitively. He also identified the thing that hurts, even ruins married life: it is that “people have tried to love in a way that would mean less like for the world—in fact, a contempt for it.” The upcoming class will discuss these sentences:
In caring for someone,…in marrying someone, our hope is to like the world. However, most people have a disposition to care for a person as a means of consolation for the fact that one hasn't liked the world so far. Love, in other words, can be a means of shelter from an unkind world, a world not too interested in us [as we see it]; or it can be a means of intensifying, affirming, extending, subtilizing a care for the world. [From The Furious Aesthetics of Marriage by Eli Siegel]
Fee $10
THE GREATEST PLEASURE a person can have is to be able to like the world on an honest basis, and every Aesthetic Realism class teaches how! There are classes in poetry, music, acting, anthropology, education, the visual arts. One of these classes is described below. Each class is based on these principles stated by Eli Siegel, the founder of Aesthetic Realism:
1. “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is
what we are going after in ourselves.”
2. “The greatest danger or temptation of man is to get a false importance or glory
from the lessening of things not himself; which lessening is Contempt.”
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