John Loughlin: 173 books

'The Modern Death' offers both a critique of the materialistic superficiality of modern life and a spiritually-oriented ideologica alternative to it in the form of Social Transcendentalism, which was first introduced into the author's poetry with the collection 'Spiritual Intimations'(1982), but here...

'The Dialectics of Gender and Class' concludes a trilogy of aphoristic books by John O'Loughlin whose focus is primarily dialectical, and does so on no uncertain axial terms, not least with regards to the elemental correlation with gender and class which comes to light when once one begins to approach...

'Omega Maxims & Maximum Omega' is a major project of reverse-title books even by John O'Loughlin's consistently productive and generally profound standards of literary production, and brings his philosophizing, in this genre, to an all-time climax, not least in respect of a deeper approach to subatomic...

'Opus D'Oeuvre' is one work, as suggested by the title, out of a large oeuvre of works of a literary nature that collectively add up to 'Opera D'Oeuvre', and, true to its metaphysical bias, it continues John O'Loughlin's quest for philosophical perfection through some fourteen aphoristic cycles (including...

THE RADICAL PROGRESS QUARTET, dating from 2003, is comprised of 'Radical Progress', 'Stairway to Judgement', 'A Perfect Resolution', and 'The Last Judgement', all four books of which continue the author's commitment to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism in pursuit of metaphysical...

'A Magnanimous Offer' is John O'Loughlin's first collection of short prose, most of which are less strictly short stories than effectively one-act plays; but it is certainly literary and betrays a certain youthful ebullience and even, for the early '70s, one or two oddly prophetic pieces!

This is more a novel about modern art and artists than writers, even though a writer figures prominently in thwarting a certain influential art critic in his designs upon an unsuspecting artist whose girlfriend's suspicions are not without foundation, in what is the first of three such art-related...

A substantial collection of short prose (stories) with a markedly philosophical bias that follows on from 'A Visit to Hell' (1979) and signifies a rejection of the kind of Spenglerian pessimism that figured prominently in the latter title. Here things open-out towards a future in which God or godliness...

This autobiographical-cum-philosophical journal is intended to complement, if from a vastly more evolved standpoint, the author's fictitious journal 'Limits' (1976), which tended to focus on physical and domestic limits. In 'Limitless', by contrast, there are seemingly few if any such limits, particularly...

'Contemplative Abstracts' is the logical sequel to 'Abstacts' (1983) which, being readerly, or capable of being read, was non-contemplative and therefore a precondition of abstract poems that require only to be contemplated, since effectively a species of word art. The five books in this project represent...

TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN derives its seemingly banal but actually quite appropriate title from a combination of short prose (the bulk of the text) with an aphoristic appendix which briefly recapitulates, on suitably succinct terms, many of the theories explored in the prose, the latter itself deriving...

Like 'Contemplations' (1985) and 'Supercontemplations' (1993), this volume of poetic word art, which bears the title 'Ultracontemplations', requires only to be contemplated, since it is composed of patterned upper-case word entities which, when they are not in mirror reverse perspective, are all different...

John O'Loughlin's second collection of poetry, written nearly ten years after 'Dosshouse Blues', is less formal overall and more orientated towards free verse whilst being consistently transcendentalist in relation to his by-then-fledgling theories of the post-human. For all their stylistic similarity,...

'The Ideological Philosophy of Social Transcendentalism' is the next eBook after 'Revolutions & Revelations' (1997), and, like its precursor, it takes the form of an aphoristically cyclical text that spirals towards a summit of philosophical truth, more or less metaphysical in nature. Most of John O'Loughlin's...