The Dialectics of Civilization

With this book John O'Loughlin has carried what was achieved in 'The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction' (2004) to a new and arguably altogether more definitively comprehensive level, a level which plots the development of civilization, in the broadest sense, from its alpha-most inception to its projected omega-most consummation, and does so with respect to both linear and axial perspectives which combine to permit of yet another fresh perspective that takes his theorizing to an all-time peak of dialectical insight, a worthy culmination to this particular philosophical quest - A Centretruths editorial