Bøger af Paul Crowther

'The epic tale of a woman's search for love and the meaning of life, as she battles to survive in a Victorian timeline more deadly than our own. Lucy Forrest has mystical experiences of the self but these are only brought to fulfilment when she has felt tragedy and love in their very depths, and has learned the secrets of the Colt-Paterson revolver. She first comes upon these in the Falkland Isles but her situation is made all the more explosive on moving to England, when she is involved in a passionate affair that awakens her full sexual potency, and is implicated in a far-reaching political conspiracy with the most deadly of outcomes. After much struggle Lucy achieves self-understanding, only for her new found freedom to be challenged again and again in a blood curdling climax, full of ironic twists and a desperate hunt to the death where the prey at last becomes the predator.'

Reinterprets key phases and figures in 20th-century art, focusing on the way artists and critics negotiate philosophically significant ideas. The text aims to illuminate a language of 20th century art that cuts across boundaries set out by such conventional notions as avant-garde and postmodernism.

The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence-a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God

The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.

Formulating an approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.