A True Extremism

This collection of short prose puts John O'Loughlin's ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism (as explained in the book by the same title) through a literary prism, as we explore a variety of interrelated themes from a loosely fictional standpoint. In fact politics, whether or not associated with a correlative mode of sexuality (as in his novella entitled 'The Politics of Sexuality'), also figures quite prominently here, though usually in connection with Social Transcendentalism, which is both political and, as the term suggests, more than political. Those especially interested in philosophy will find the last three pieces in this collection particularly intriguing, since they were conceived in a loosely aphoristic vein, the final one being a kind of oblique tribute to and even ironic parody of Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'.