Abstract

About twenty years ago this essay was unjustly ridiculed. The parallel which Mr. Siegel draws between beauty in art and self-integration may have seemed far-fetched, for it is indeed his thesis that "the resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art." The integration of opposites into a coherent whole is central to his analysis of the structures of Self and World. The spirit of the aesthetics is basically Deweyian, and the essay might be viewed as an incipient phenomenology of well-being.—P. S.