Links to the files of
which follow the remarks below:–
Although a
relatively minor work in itself, this volume of essayistic aphorisms and
aphoristic notes is significant inasmuch as it signifies another of my attempts
to approach and develop Truth from a consistently aphoristic, not to say
ideological, angle, and may be regarded as a harbinger of the types of
‘supernotational’ projects which, with a certain aphoristic flair, were to
preoccupy me during the years 1985–93.Divided into two parts, both of which are largely concerned with
evaluating and revaluating various philosophical positions either already taken
or common to my work in general, it paved the way for the systematic evaluating
and revaluating which was to become so characteristic of my work from now on,
and to prove of such significance in my ability to develop and summarize Truth.
The principal theme and concern of Evaluations and Revaluations is
Social Transcendentalism and its relationship to what I term 'the Centre' – a
politico-religious concept which the ideology in question would like to
democratically advance at the expense of traditional state/church relativity. –
John O’Loughlin.
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split partly due to his mother's Aldershot origins (her father, a Presbyterian from Donegal, had served in the British Army),
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who upon the premature death of her husband had initially returned to Ireland after a lengthy marital absence from Athenry) in the mid-50s and, having had the benefit of private tuition from a Catholic priest, subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St. George's RC schools in Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been sent to a children's home
by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his grandmother, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys. Upon leaving the latter in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs
(Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs
(General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved up to London proper and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford
Square WC1, where, with some prior experience himself of having sat and passed (with merit) a grade 4 piano exam, he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of personal factors, quit the ABRSM in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency within the local YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations(1981), and False Pretences (1982). Since the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has dedicated himself almost exclusively to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned numerous titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985–6), Towards
the Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical Truth (1991–2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
