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Product Description: If the essayistic aphorisms and aphoristic essays of the eight volumes of so-called ‘supernotes’ which preceded this title are of indeterminate length, then what follows here, dating from 1993, is of an aphoristic purism which allows for little or no deviation from the basic form...read more

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9781530133857 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 19, 2016, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: If the essayistic aphorisms and aphoristic essays of the eight volumes of so-called ‘supernotes’ which preceded this title are of indeterminate length, then what follows here, dating from 1993, is of an aphoristic purism which allows for little or no deviation from the basic form.

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Product Description: This is the last in the series of aphoristic philosophy quartets stemming from 'The Ethnic Universality Quartet' (2002), and, like its predecessors, including one notable departure from the quartet mould, namely 'The Father Omega Sextet' (2004), it continues with the task of expanding the ideological frontiers of Social Theocracy towards their ultimate culmination in a structure which is both metaphysical and, in the case of anti-metachemistry, less than metaphysical but equally crucial to the viability of what the author regards as an ultimate solution to the existence of the world considered as a female-dominated phenomenon partial to greed and exploitation that can only be opposed from a standpoint favouring metaphysics and pseudo-metachemistry in relation to the possibility of some equivalence of 'Kingdom Come', rendered all the more imperative in view of the current parlous situation of the world and, more particularly, of those who suffer from the oppression of greed-motivated exploiters the most...read more

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9781523893256 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 5, 2016, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: This is the last in the series of aphoristic philosophy quartets stemming from 'The Ethnic Universality Quartet' (2002), and, like its predecessors, including one notable departure from the quartet mould, namely 'The Father Omega Sextet' (2004), it continues with the task of expanding the ideological frontiers of Social Theocracy towards their ultimate culmination in a structure which is both metaphysical and, in the case of anti-metachemistry, less than metaphysical but equally crucial to the viability of what the author regards as an ultimate solution to the existence of the world considered as a female-dominated phenomenon partial to greed and exploitation that can only be opposed from a standpoint favouring metaphysics and pseudo-metachemistry in relation to the possibility of some equivalence of 'Kingdom Come', rendered all the more imperative in view of the current parlous situation of the world and, more particularly, of those who suffer from the oppression of greed-motivated exploiters the most.

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Product Description: Marx's interpretation of history in terms of dialectical materialism gets little sympathy or further encouragement here, in this immense project, since it manifestly fails to match-up to the sort of criteria that derive not from state-hegemonic but from church-hegemonic traditions, being the product, by and large, of a disposition that would be un-Catholic, to say the least...read more

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9781523812042 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 1, 2016, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Marx's interpretation of history in terms of dialectical materialism gets little sympathy or further encouragement here, in this immense project, since it manifestly fails to match-up to the sort of criteria that derive not from state-hegemonic but from church-hegemonic traditions, being the product, by and large, of a disposition that would be un-Catholic, to say the least.

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Product Description: The four books of aphoristic philosophy that constitute 'The Free Testament Quartet' date from 2003-4 and signify a further advance of John O'Loughlin's metaphysical philosophy beyond 'The Radical Progress Quartet' (2003). The first book, from which this quartet derives its name, was an attempt by the author to establish a testament, both personal and universal, that would be truly free, not, like the Christian New Testament, under the domination of the Judaic Old Testament within the Judeo-Christian tradition which, in Britain, is reflected in the King James Bible...read more

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9781523659388 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 23, 2016, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: The four books of aphoristic philosophy that constitute 'The Free Testament Quartet' date from 2003-4 and signify a further advance of John O'Loughlin's metaphysical philosophy beyond 'The Radical Progress Quartet' (2003).

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Product Description: Following on from 'The Apocalypso Quartet' (2003), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume the titles 'Radical Progress', 'Stairway to Judgement', 'A Perfect Resolution', and 'The Last Judgement', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both e-book and paperback formats...read more

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9781523389094 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 13, 2016, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Following on from 'The Apocalypso Quartet' (2003), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume the titles 'Radical Progress', 'Stairway to Judgement', 'A Perfect Resolution', and 'The Last Judgement', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both e-book and paperback formats.

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Product Description: Following on from 'The Ethnic Universality Quartet' (2002), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'The Virtuous Circles', 'The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom', 'Apotheosis of the Gnosis', and 'Eschatology or Scatology – Judgement at the Crossroads', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both e-book and paperback formats...read more

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9781523224043 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 2, 2016, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Following on from 'The Ethnic Universality Quartet' (2002), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'The Virtuous Circles', 'The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom', 'Apotheosis of the Gnosis', and 'Eschatology or Scatology – Judgement at the Crossroads', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both e-book and paperback formats.

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Product Description: Originally dating from 2002, this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'Ethnic Universality', 'No Man-Oeuvre', 'The High-Way of Truth', and 'The End of Evolution', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both e-book and paperback formats...read more

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9781522931409 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 26, 2015, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Originally dating from 2002, this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'Ethnic Universality', 'No Man-Oeuvre', 'The High-Way of Truth', and 'The End of Evolution', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both e-book and paperback formats.

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Product Description: A four-book volume of maxims and aphorisms, most of which have a metaphysical bias which becomes progressively more pronounced. Originally dating from 1994, 'Occasional Maxims' and 'Maximum Occasions' pave the way for 'Omega Maxims' and 'Maximum Omega', both of which date from 1996, so that there is a two-year gap between each of the reverse-title pairings that, with three other titles written in a different style coming in-between, renders the latter pair somewhat more thematically and even ideologically advanced, relative to what had preceded it within the ongoing evolution of John O'Loughlin's philosophical oeuvre towards its inevitable omega point...read more

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9781522801948 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 17, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A four-book volume of maxims and aphorisms, most of which have a metaphysical bias which becomes progressively more pronounced.

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Product Description: Few books can have undergone so many re-evaluations as this one, which has developed a fresh approach to terms which the author was apt to take for granted in recent years, never imagining that, one day, they would undergo such extensive re-evaluation as has transpired in this, arguably his most comprehensively exacting and philosophically significant work to-date, the overall significance of which is also due to the way in which certain antitheses, like life and death, heathen and Christian, energy and gravity, concrete and abstract, etc...read more

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9781519611291 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Few books can have undergone so many re-evaluations as this one, which has developed a fresh approach to terms which the author was apt to take for granted in recent years, never imagining that, one day, they would undergo such extensive re-evaluation as has transpired in this, arguably his most comprehensively exacting and philosophically significant work to-date, the overall significance of which is also due to the way in which certain antitheses, like life and death, heathen and Christian, energy and gravity, concrete and abstract, etc.

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Product Description: Four books of maxims and aphorisms in one volume, all of which have a metaphysical bias which becomes progressively more pronounced. Originally dating from 1993, the year in which John O'Loughlin first began to systematically write in such a concise style, albeit one that is fairly loose and, at times, even discursively relaxed in its approach to philosophical truth...read more

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9781519556035 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 26, 2015, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Four books of maxims and aphorisms in one volume, all of which have a metaphysical bias which becomes progressively more pronounced.

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Product Description: The four books of poetry that make up this quartet were written during 1982-5, at a time when John O'Loughlin had rekindled his interest in poetry from a standpoint partial to what he then called ‘collectivized literature’. Such literature was intended to embrace as many genres in one volume or project as one could manage, effectively doing away with the distinctions between different types of books based on genre differentials, and therefore he felt obliged to return to his literary 'first love', abandoned since the early 1970s, for the purpose of ensuring that his approach to ‘collectivization’ wasn’t just prosaic or philosophic but also, to a degree, poetic...read more

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9781519413185 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 19, 2015, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: The four books of poetry that make up this quartet were written during 1982-5, at a time when John O'Loughlin had rekindled his interest in poetry from a standpoint partial to what he then called ‘collectivized literature’.

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Product Description: There is a sense in which the better or more evolved of these poems strain towards philosophy as though towards John O'Loughlin's true destiny in writing, while yet retaining certain poetic values and tendencies which he was not, at the time, in a position to wholeheartedly reject from what he would regard as a morally or culturally superior vantage-point, as from the standpoint of one who had ‘seen through’ poetry and its ‘right’ to certain limitations...read more

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9781519247810 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 11, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: There is a sense in which the better or more evolved of these poems strain towards philosophy as though towards John O'Loughlin's true destiny in writing, while yet retaining certain poetic values and tendencies which he was not, at the time, in a position to wholeheartedly reject from what he would regard as a morally or culturally superior vantage-point, as from the standpoint of one who had ‘seen through’ poetry and its ‘right’ to certain limitations.

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Product Description: Although all three novels in this ‘trilogy’ are independent works that have been published individually, they share a common thematic concern with transcendentalism, not least in respect of modern art, and were originally written by the author in quick succession, thereby retaining a stylistic as well as thematic consistency which has always lent itself to the idea of a loose trilogy that, partly because of their mutual independence and partly because of their subject-matter, could be regarded as ‘transcendent’...read more

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9781518866098 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 31, 2015, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Although all three novels in this ‘trilogy’ are independent works that have been published individually, they share a common thematic concern with transcendentalism, not least in respect of modern art, and were originally written by the author in quick succession, thereby retaining a stylistic as well as thematic consistency which has always lent itself to the idea of a loose trilogy that, partly because of their mutual independence and partly because of their subject-matter, could be regarded as ‘transcendent’.

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Product Description: This second volume of John O'Loughlin's Collected Short Prose dates from 1982-4 and differs from those prose pieces in the first volume, 'Two Sides of the Same Coin' (1976-81), only in the sense that some of the ones included here are, by and large, more ideologically conditioned, the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism having begun to sprout from the soil of his fertile intellect around 1984, and therefore coinciding with a number of pieces appertaining to what was originally the author's seventh book of short prose which, frankly, comes right at the end of his commitment to the genre and therefore coincides with a marked rise in philosophical tempo, so to speak, in his writings as a whole...read more

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9781518716577 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 21, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: This second volume of John O'Loughlin's Collected Short Prose dates from 1982-4 and differs from those prose pieces in the first volume, 'Two Sides of the Same Coin' (1976-81), only in the sense that some of the ones included here are, by and large, more ideologically conditioned, the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism having begun to sprout from the soil of his fertile intellect around 1984, and therefore coinciding with a number of pieces appertaining to what was originally the author's seventh book of short prose which, frankly, comes right at the end of his commitment to the genre and therefore coincides with a marked rise in philosophical tempo, so to speak, in his writings as a whole.

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Product Description: This compilation of short prose represents 'volume one' of a projected two-volume compilation which goes half-way towards a 'collected short prose' in that its contents derive from four different volumes dating from 1976-1981, and kind of fit together both stylistically and thematically, coming to an aphoristic head, which summarizes many of the subjects tackled, and in large part explains the author's choice of overall title, insofar as these aphorisms can be regarded as constituting the heads side of a ‘coin’ whose tails, as fiction to truth, can only be short prose...read more

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9781518618963 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 14, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: This compilation of short prose represents 'volume one' of a projected two-volume compilation which goes half-way towards a 'collected short prose' in that its contents derive from four different volumes dating from 1976-1981, and kind of fit together both stylistically and thematically, coming to an aphoristic head, which summarizes many of the subjects tackled, and in large part explains the author's choice of overall title, insofar as these aphorisms can be regarded as constituting the heads side of a ‘coin’ whose tails, as fiction to truth, can only be short prose.

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9781517729561 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 8, 2015, cover price $10.99

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Product Description: John O'Loughlin began writing dialogues in a play-like vein some time in 1976, two of which are included at the beginning of this collection, and soon progressed, via a study of Diderot and other French philosophers, to a more philosophical approach to the genre, which is amply documented in this first volume of a projected two volume ‘collected dialogues’...read more

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9781517648022 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 3, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: John O'Loughlin began writing dialogues in a play-like vein some time in 1976, two of which are included at the beginning of this collection, and soon progressed, via a study of Diderot and other French philosophers, to a more philosophical approach to the genre, which is amply documented in this first volume of a projected two volume ‘collected dialogues’.

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Product Description: As suggested by the title, Volume II of John O'Loughlin's Collected Essays is effectively the converse of the first volume, insofar as its essayistic contents, derived from four prior publications, are much more orientated towards truth than simply rooted, scholar-wise, in knowledge, and it was this new-found and hard-won confidence in his capacity to expand knowledge truthfully, more independently of scholarly reference or literary citations than before, that made much of these writings possible...read more

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9781517523787 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 25, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: As suggested by the title, Volume II of John O'Loughlin's Collected Essays is effectively the converse of the first volume, insofar as its essayistic contents, derived from four prior publications, are much more orientated towards truth than simply rooted, scholar-wise, in knowledge, and it was this new-found and hard-won confidence in his capacity to expand knowledge truthfully, more independently of scholarly reference or literary citations than before, that made much of these writings possible.

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Product Description: 'A Knowledgeable Approach to Truth' is Volume I of a projected two-volume ‘collected essays’ and, as suggested by the title, it puts some store by the utilization of knowledge in the pursuit of truth, however one might wish to interpret such a loaded term...read more

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9781517098643 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 28, 2015, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: 'A Knowledgeable Approach to Truth' is Volume I of a projected two-volume ‘collected essays’ and, as suggested by the title, it puts some store by the utilization of knowledge in the pursuit of truth, however one might wish to interpret such a loaded term.

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Product Description: This substantial collection of aphorisms and maxims is taken from a variety of projects, including (besides the aforementioned genres) volumes containing either dialogues or essays like 'The Illusory Truth', 'The Way of Evolution', and 'The Importance of Technology to the Transcendental Future' or both dialogues and essays like 'Future Transformations', 'Post-Atomic Perspectives', 'The Will to Truth', and 'Social Transcendentalism', which John O'Loughlin wrote between 1977 and 1984, and is therefore representative of a comparatively early stage in his philosophical development...read more

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9781516898770 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 14, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This substantial collection of aphorisms and maxims is taken from a variety of projects, including (besides the aforementioned genres) volumes containing either dialogues or essays like 'The Illusory Truth', 'The Way of Evolution', and 'The Importance of Technology to the Transcendental Future' or both dialogues and essays like 'Future Transformations', 'Post-Atomic Perspectives', 'The Will to Truth', and 'Social Transcendentalism', which John O'Loughlin wrote between 1977 and 1984, and is therefore representative of a comparatively early stage in his philosophical development.

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Product Description: This project is a combination of two other works, viz. 'The Transcendental Future' (1980), and 'The Way of Evolution' (1981), and therefore dates from 1980-81, a time when John O'Loughlin had just turned away from the Spenglerian historicism of 'In the Shadow of Spengler' (1978-9) towards a more optimistic outlook on life or, at any rate, the prospect of evolutionary progress based around an orientation towards, in de Chardinesque terminology, the omega-point of things, which he has identified with transcendentalism...read more

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9781515368335 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 5, 2015, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: This project is a combination of two other works, viz.

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Product Description: John O'Loughlin first got the curious and even novel idea of writing a number of philosophical dialogues in 1978 from reading the French philosopher Diderot, one of the masters of the genre, and the results, several weeks later, were four fairly lengthy philosophical dialogues, which enabled him to continue developing the dualistic theories begun the previous year (1977) in both 'Between Truth and Illusion' and 'The Illusory Truth'...read more

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9781515248019 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 27, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: John O'Loughlin first got the curious and even novel idea of writing a number of philosophical dialogues in 1978 from reading the French philosopher Diderot, one of the masters of the genre, and the results, several weeks later, were four fairly lengthy philosophical dialogues, which enabled him to continue developing the dualistic theories begun the previous year (1977) in both 'Between Truth and Illusion' and 'The Illusory Truth'.

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Product Description: This modest collection of John O'Loughlin's early literature is comprised of four one-act plays, two of which are straight dialogues, together with a couple of short stories which the author wrote at about the same time (1976), and which he believes to have a loosely poetic quality that deserve, for stylistic reasons, to be included with the plays, the title piece of which was intended to be a shamelessly facetious parody of Oscar Wilde, one of the authors he most admired as a youth...read more

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9781515104391 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 16, 2015, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: This modest collection of John O'Loughlin's early literature is comprised of four one-act plays, two of which are straight dialogues, together with a couple of short stories which the author wrote at about the same time (1976), and which he believes to have a loosely poetic quality that deserve, for stylistic reasons, to be included with the plays, the title piece of which was intended to be a shamelessly facetious parody of Oscar Wilde, one of the authors he most admired as a youth.

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Product Description: John O'Loughlin's first real collection of poems, written on and off during 1973-75, reflects the lyricism and formal simplicity of youth, showing the influence of poets like Rimbaud, Ezra Pound, Adrian Henri, and even Doors lead singer Jim Morrison on his formative years as a writer...read more

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9781515073086 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 14, 2015, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: John O'Loughlin's first real collection of poems, written on and off during 1973-75, reflects the lyricism and formal simplicity of youth, showing the influence of poets like Rimbaud, Ezra Pound, Adrian Henri, and even Doors lead singer Jim Morrison on his formative years as a writer.

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Product Description: Deriving its title from the black-covered notebooks which were used in its formative composition, this title brings John O'Loughlin's metaphysical philosophy to its logical conclusion, and is therefore probably the most logically comprehensive of all his works, drawing the various strands of his Social Theocratic philosophy together and presenting it in the uniquely aphoristic style which allows for both formal sequences of related ideas (maxims) and for a more informal presentation of material (aphorisms) that is almost essay-like in its relatively discursive character...read more

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9781515031826 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Deriving its title from the black-covered notebooks which were used in its formative composition, this title brings John O'Loughlin's metaphysical philosophy to its logical conclusion, and is therefore probably the most logically comprehensive of all his works, drawing the various strands of his Social Theocratic philosophy together and presenting it in the uniquely aphoristic style which allows for both formal sequences of related ideas (maxims) and for a more informal presentation of material (aphorisms) that is almost essay-like in its relatively discursive character.

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