John Lennon and the Battle in Every Mind between Contempt and Respect
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This essay looks at John Lennon of The Beatles to comment on the great need musicologists have for a method
of writing biography that is capable of doing justice to ethical dimension of an artist’s life and work. The author
advocates the use of Aesthetic Realism to achieve this. It is the philosophy founded in 1941 by the great American
scholar Eli Siegel. In Aesthetic Realism is a new way of understanding the relation of Ethics and Aesthetics. Central
to it is Eli Siegel’s comprehension of the on-going debate in every human mind between Contempt and Respect – a
debate illustrated in the life and work of Lennon. To give both more immediacy and more dimension to these matters,
the author – who, like Lennon, is a composer – quotes from class discussions with him from his study, in the 1970s,
with Eli Siegel.
Keywords: John Lennon, Eli Siegel, The Beatles, Aesthetic Realism, Ethics.
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