This volume of short prose concludes John O'Loughlin's quest for literary perfection in the genre, as it brings his fiction to an ideological pinnacle in Social Transcendentalism, which is explored from a variety of angles and through a number of different characters, though always with a view to justifying and defining it in relation to a kind of ultimate religion. In that respect, this project is the most ideologically advanced and thematically consistent of the author's six volumes of short prose.
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By John O'Loughlin
Apr 11, 2011
"Concerning A TRUE EXTREMISM" This collection of fifteen short-prose pieces puts John O'Loughlin's ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism through a literary prism, as we explore a variety of interrelated themes from a loosely fictional standpoint. In fact politics, whether associated with a correlative mode of sexuality or not, also figures quite prominently here, though usually in connection with Social Transcendentalism which, being politico-religious, is both political and more than political. Those especially interested in philosophy will find the last three titles in this collection particularly intriguing, since they were conceived in a loosely aphoristic vein, the final one being a kind of oblique tribute to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
