From an anthropological point of view, as a sculptor my job is to make images that embody the truths for which the society I live in stands. Yet even thirty years ago there was precious little for which society stood and so I was compelled to set about finding truth for myself. After two years I had something that I could call truth and duly returned to art. Soon enough however I realised that the art world was going in a direction that I was not prepared to go. Turning to film, I made a number of short films only to find that the world of experimental film was going the same way. Turning to the written word, I wrote a novella and an experimental novel, which over the years I re-wrote extensively. Learning Ancient Greek not only helped me find my artistic style, it also lead to me I being re-confronted with the problems that I had addressed in my youth and thirty years down the line, I set about formulating my views into a coherent system. Apart from the two poems, the books introduced below are of around 300 pages. Given the road to nowhere that the publishing industry is intent on pursuing, over the coming years these projects will be broken down into shorter works which will then be published as Reloading Humanism Guides in A-5 format with a length of between 180 and 250 pages.

Order at the Heart of Chaos: Life and Consciousness in an Exploding Universe

The work is a stop-check of scientific materialism, with the central questions being: „Is modern day materialism capable of explaining the occurrence of i) life and ii) consciousness?“ Beginning with the Big Bang of modern physics and the hugely important concept of entropy, chaos theory and the behaviour of non-linear, dynamic systems are introduced. An evolutionary-based view of our place in the world sees us as problem-solvers with the origins of this ability being traced back to Homo erectus and providing a new foundation for our sense of ethics and aesthetics. 98,000 words, not yet published.

Plato: his Life, Times and Philosophy

Since the Renaissance Plato has increasingly become the preserve of scholars who do not see the significance of his work in science and mathematics. Re-adjusting this bias, the book presents a completely new approach to Plato and his philosophy. In connection with Greek architecture, the un-translated and forgotten work of Ernst Mössel is introduced. 60,000 words, not yet published.

The Legacy of Plato and the Triumph of the Renaissance

After summarising the main aspects of Plato’s philosophy, this book shows how an appreciation of Plato and the problems he was dealing with enables a number of otherwise unexplained aspects of the Renaissance to be understood. Despite being written for the general reader, the original nature of numerous insights mean that the work will also be of interest to those who are already knowledgeable on Plato and the art and philosophy of the Renaissance. 94,000 words, not yet published.