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