John O Loughlin: 171 books

A philosophical autobiography in aphoristic vein by John O'Loughlin, who has earned the right to boldly sum-up and evaluate his life after having brought his philosophical quest of several decades to a more than satisfactory resolution.

A combined autobiographical and philosophical project dating from 2009-10 by John O'Loughlin, whose autobiographical reminiscences are tinged by philosophical considerations and whose philosophy,characterized by an exactingly-comprehensive logical structure, is not above autobiographical leanings, least of all with regard to the recent past and certain current experiences.

The six philosophical essays included here, which vary in length and treatment of style, were written in the late-1970s by John O'Loughlin and reflect a non-Marxist concern with the influence of environment upon culture, not least in respect of literature, music, religion, and knowledge generally. Although...

LOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS is volume one of a two-volume 'collected dialogues' by John O'Loughlin which moves from a relatively dramatic - even play-like - opening towards a more systematically philosophical approach to the genre which, fittingly, culminates with an aphoristic appendix that both crowns and...

This composite project by John O'Loughlin combines the dialogues of 'A Question of Belief' (1978) with the essays of 'The Fall of Love' (1979), to make a substantial volume of literary philosophy which attempts to take a balanced view, deriving from the author's earlier excursion into dualistic philosophy,...

Like what preceded it in the form of 'Millennial Projections' (1982), this collection of short prose is also comprised of sixteen stories, and again it is an intensely philosophical and ideological project that is, however, more self-consciously avant-garde and determined to allow subjectivity, whether...

'Convergence' is an anthological project in which a number of titled compilations of aphorisms and/or maxims deriving from prior publications and independent volumes have been combined into a quasi-cyclical work the contents of which, dating from 1977-84, signify a comparatively early stage in John O'Loughlin's...

TALES SIDE UP is volume two of John O'Loughlin's 'Collected Short Prose' and is comprised of three prior books dating from 1982-4. The title is of course a pun on tails, since the first volume was entitled 'Two Sides of the Same Coin' and that more or less metaphysical coin persists here with even greater...

This is John O'Loughlin's first and, to-date, only attempt at writing a dictionary, in which the terminology follows alphabetically in chronological spelling order, and, needless to say, it's in conjunction with the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism that such a project was initially...

'PRIVATE OBSERVATIONS - Personal and Unviersale' is not quite as private as it first appears to be, since it is a fully-fledged example of John O'Loughlin's cyclic philosophy at its best, and therefore extends the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism into new realms of speculative and ontological...

'Jesus - A Summing Up', as it has been titled, somewhat with Arthur Koestler's 'Janus - A Summing Up' in mind, pretty much brings the formal 'oeuvre' stage of John O'Loughlin's philosophizing, which began back in 1977 and has resulted in over ninety works of a philosophical nature, to a highly satisfactory...

With fifteen headed cycles of aphoristic philosophy, 'The Kingdom of the Soul' is a further advance in John O'Loughlin's metaphysics, as a variety of dualities or antitheses are examined in relation to the overall elemental structures of the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism, examples...

With some twenty-eight cycles of numbered aphorisms, 'Magnus Dei' is something of a magnus opus, even if still at quite some distance from the top rung of John O'Loughlin's ladder-like literary oeuvre, which he believes rises ever higher towards a summit of metaphysical truth. Nevertheless, with a number...

TRUTHFUL ILLUSIONS & ILLUSORY TRUTHS is effectively a combination of the essayistic material from two prior publications, viz. 'Between Truth and Illusion' and 'The Illusory Truth' (1977), and therefore signifies a kind of truncated or concise version of those books which has the merit of excluding their...