Welcome to our blog!

Greetings!
This is the official blog of Gravitas Press.
We are a new small press dedicated to printing novels, essays, short stories, and poetry combating modernism and promoting traditional philosophy and ethics. This blog is for our authors to provide information about upcoming books, thoughts, reflections, answer questions, or anything else.

You can visit our official website at http://sites.google.com/a/gravitaspress.com/gravitas to learn about our upcoming publications. Online ordering will become available sometime in November.

This business is just getting off the ground, but we will have several books and pamphlets available in upcoming months.

Near mid-December we will be releasing three booklets/pamphlets:

1. A defense of metaphysical enquiry by Eric Brooks. This short reflection, written in an easy to understand question-and-answer form, defends the study of philosophical metaphysics against various skeptical arguments. Leaving aside theological questions, metaphysics is defended as a legitimate branch of natural knowledge within the grasp of all people by virtue of the same intellect that allows us to pursue math and science. An excellent primer for someone just beginning to look into these questions, or a good way to invite materialists into reasonable even-handed discussion.
2. A reflection on the decline of the West by Chris Taylor, summarizing in brief but penetrating words the political, moral, esthetic, and spiritual decline of modern civilization.
3. A criticism of violence in modern horror movies, by Sean Kater. This booklet bypasses the silly statistical questions about the effects of media violence on children, and instead cuts right to the moral and philosophical heart of the question. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge of classical and medieval literature, Mr. Kater differentiates several forms of graphic violence. Thus he is able to avoid any blanket condemnation of violent stories in general, praising the virtues of some, but ultimately showing the total corruption of violence in horror movies.

In February 2010 we will be bringing you our first two full-length books:

1. The Legend of St George by Eric Brooks. The simple and iconic legend of St George the dragon slayer is retold as a 'return of the king' myth. The knight and martyr miraculously marches again, toppling our civilization and establishing a bizarre and fairy-like new Christendom. George's triumph is told by a variety of voices from the new civilization including poets, essayists, and storytellers from the oral tradition.
2. The Minaret and Other Poems by Sean Kater and Eric Brooks. The Minaret is Sean Kater's long-in-the-making narrative poem about a journey through a labyrinth of strange dangers and self-doubts, all moving toward an ever-distant tower at the center of both the inner and outer landscape of the poem. Also included are short poems by both authors treating subjects legendary and philosophical, as well as a preface discussing the nature and importance of poetry.

We hope to have you along as friends and readers. In addition to these print publications, this blog should be updated several times a week.