Perspectiva Press

Perspectiva seeks to understand the relationship between systems, souls and society in a time of crisis, and to develop methods, grounded in an applied philosophy of education, to help us meet the challenges of our time.

As part of this broader endeavour, Perspectiva Press will specialise in short books of between 20,000 and 50,000 words, with occasional longer works. These books will be beautiful, well-presented and distinctive. Their purpose is to shape and share thinking that helps to:

• Create a community of expert generalists with skills of synthesis and epistemic agility
• Envisage a world beyond consumerism, and pathways for how we might get there
• Support sociological imagination in a dynamic ecological and technological context
• Cultivate spiritual sensibility; clarifying how it manifests and why it matters
• Encourage a more complex and systemic understanding of the world
• Commit to going beyond critique, by developing vision and method
• Indicate how we can do pluralism better; epistemic, cultural, political, spiritual
• Clarify what it means to become the change we want to see in the world
• Increase the authority of people doing important work aligned with Perspectiva

It is unusual for a charity like Perspectiva to become a publisher, even a small one, but we value books as dignified cultural artefacts with their own kind of analogue power, and we believe ideas travel further and connect more deeply when they are rooted in the mandate of a publication designed to last for years, not merely moments. We also saw a gap in the market for books that specialise in the kinds of integrative and imaginative sensibilities that speak to the challenges of our time.