Mantic Publishing.
Books on technology, geopolitics, society, and spirituality. We work with authors to develop the idea, examine its assumptions, and make the argument clear.
Some arguments cannot survive being shorter.
An argument that fits in a post collects agreement. One that has to hold for three hundred pages gets found out. Mantic is the Center's independently edited press, and it publishes few books because finding out takes time.
No subject list. One test.
An idea worth examining.
Geopolitics, technology, society, spirituality, and the places they cross. The starting point is a question worth pursuing and an argument that can withstand careful examination.
Someone who will defend it.
Mantic breaks and builds the idea with the author before a word of the manuscript is fixed. That process only works with a writer who intends to stand behind the finished position in public. In special cases Mantic works with an author who is already published.
First title, under contract
The Transcendence of Technology: A Spiritual Return for Humanity
An argument that the question technology forces on us is not economic or political but spiritual, and that the answer is a return rather than an advance.
Mantic publishes few books and works on each one for a long time. This is the first, and the list will stay short.
Follow the listFewer books. More work on each.
How to start
Send us something we can argue with.
Start with the idea, the question it addresses, and what you know that most people do not.
Visit manticpublishing.comIt should hold the same in five minutes as in five hundred years.
That is the whole test. Everything else about Mantic follows from it.
