This is so, he says, because “they embody – in aesthetic form some of the deepest truths concerning the nature of the condition human nature and our place in the universe” (page ). Crowther states that “analytic aesthetics needs phenomenology to expand its ontological scope and resolve the problem of expression” (page). Phenomenology, the philosopher continues, “needs the discursive force and lucidity of analytical philosophy in order to develop a sustained, critically balanced and intellectually available ontology”. (page) This reciprocal need, according to Crowhter, justifies a post-analytic phenomenology of art.