Graham Dunstan Martin Explained

Graham Dunstan Martin
Birth Date:	21 October 1932
Birth Place:	Leeds
Death Date:	27 March 2021
Occupation:	Author

Graham Dunstan Martin (21 October 1932, Leeds – 27 March 2021)^{[1] [2]} was a British author, translator, and philologist.

Martin was an opponent of materialist philosophy. He was the author of Does It Matter?: The Unsustainable World of the Materialists which gravitates towards idealism and neutral monism as an alternative.^[3] He also authored Living On Purpose: Meaning, Intention and Value which argued for purpose and value in the universe.^[4]

Selected publications

Fiction

• Giftwish (Drew, 1978) ^[5]
• Catchfire (Drew, 1981)
• The Soul Master (Unwin, 1984)
• Time-Slip (Unwin, 1986)
• The Dream Wall (Unwin Hyman, 1987)
• Half a Glass of Moonshine (Unwin Hyman, 1988)

Non-fiction

• Shadows in the Cave: Mapping the Conscious Universe (London: Penguin Arkana, 1990)^[1]
• An Inquiry into the Purposes of Speculative Fiction – Fantasy and Truth (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003)^[1]
• Living on Purpose: Meaning, Intention and Value (Floris, 2008)
• Does It Matter?: The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. Edinburgh: Floris, 2005.
• Language Truth and Poetry: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975.
• The Architecture of Experience: A Discussion of the Role of Language and Literature in the Construction of the World. Edinburgh: At the University Press, 1981.

Edited

• Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975.

Translated

• Paul Valéry. The Graveyard by the Sea. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
• Louise Labé, pseud. Charly van Louise, Sonnets. With Introduction and Commentaries by Peter Sharratt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974.
• Jules Laforgue, Selected Poems. London, England: Penguin Books, 1998.

Notes and References

1. “Martin, Graham Dunstan” The Encyclopedia of the Science Fiction
2. "Mr Graham Dunstan Martin" Dignity Funerals
3. Marshall, Paul. 2007. Book Review: Does It Matter? The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 14. 4. 117–128.
4. Egan, Anthony. 2012. Living On Purpose: Meaning, Intention and Value. The Heythrop Journal. 53. 4. 700-701. 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2012.00748_12.x.
5. https://www.bookfinder.com/author/graham-dunstan-martin/ Bookfinder