{"id":772,"date":"2021-08-04T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/?page_id=772"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:30:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"772\" class=\"elementor elementor-772\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1af3e07a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1af3e07a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76dae659\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-53001e1e\" data-id=\"53001e1e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-661f9e59 elementor-hidden-phone elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"661f9e59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_224971582_s-2019-300x300.jpeg\" class=\"elementor-animation-float attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-766\" alt=\"Origin\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_224971582_s-2019-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_224971582_s-2019-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_224971582_s-2019-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_224971582_s-2019-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_224971582_s-2019-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_224971582_s-2019.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-240c9f9e\" data-id=\"240c9f9e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-396e9b8e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"396e9b8e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our Origin<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65b6f76d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"65b6f76d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Phenomenology Press was established in mid-2019 to manage the publishing and release of Andrew Fookes\u2019 debut novel <em>In Body, In Mind<\/em>, and to support the development and release of two related works: <em>In Living Memory<\/em> and <em>In Medio Dierum,<\/em> as a philosophical literary fiction collection. By mid-2020, the scope of that initial collection increased to include two additional works: <em>In Absentia Lucis<\/em> and a fifth which provisionally is to be titled <em>In Time and Space<\/em>.<\/p><p>With our modest list we hope to help keep alive the tradition of philosophical literary fiction, the novel genre which captured the attention of European readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-2f89aa0e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2f89aa0e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-43d72c3e\" data-id=\"43d72c3e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-208113c9 elementor-hidden-phone elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"208113c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_8148509_s-2019-300x293.jpeg\" class=\"elementor-animation-float attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-767\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_8148509_s-2019-300x293.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_8148509_s-2019-600x585.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_8148509_s-2019-768x749.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_8148509_s-2019.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-34453c38\" data-id=\"34453c38\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a2b73c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6a2b73c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our Direction<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2abd478e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2abd478e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Phenomenology Press exists because big commercial publishers don\u2019t bother with philosophical literary fiction. It\u2019s not profitable. It\u2019s too niche. It borders on an anachronism. Big commercial publishers don\u2019t care if works of philosophical literary fiction disappear altogether.<\/p><p>And this isn\u2019t because there aren\u2019t readers. Nor is it because these works aren\u2019t being written, or because those that are written aren\u2019t of superb quality \u2013 it\u2019s because the expected volume of sales isn\u2019t big enough for large publishing houses to achieve the margins they want. We believe there are many other literary niches that are likewise disappearing from the bookshelves of the world, all in the name of corporate profit.<\/p><p>Big commercial publishers want books to be short, catchy, and pitched at the reading level of a nine-year-old. Kind of like an advertising jingle on paper. The shorter the book, the cheaper it is to produce (though not necessarily buy), and the sooner it will be that the reader is ready to buy again. And books need to be easy to read and understand, because some people don&#8217;t want to think too much about what they read. And while that&#8217;s fine for them, it doesn&#8217;t suit all readers.<\/p><p>At Phenomenology Press, we think readers deserve a better range of choices, far broader than the narrow list of works from which big publishing can make the most money. And so do many other independent presses, which are likewise committed to producing works that readers want rather than telling readers what they can have.\u00a0<\/p><p>So that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. That\u2019s why we\u2019re here. And if what we\u2019re doing excites you as a reader, then join us for the ride as we help to fill the philosophical literary fiction-shaped niche in bookshelves of the world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-75fcf325 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"75fcf325\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-27202b13\" data-id=\"27202b13\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a219261 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4a219261\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_185299534_s-2019-300x202.jpeg\" class=\"elementor-animation-float attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-768\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_185299534_s-2019-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_185299534_s-2019-600x404.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_185299534_s-2019-768x517.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Depositphotos_185299534_s-2019.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-72b4284e\" data-id=\"72b4284e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79ca21af elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"79ca21af\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our Readers<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6086d142 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6086d142\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At Phenomenology Press we have a very clear idea of the type of readers who will <em>get<\/em> what we publish. After all, philosophical literary fiction is pretty niche, so we know that it\u2019s likely to be a special type of person who will want to immerse themselves in our titles.\u00a0<\/p><p>We think it\u2019ll be someone who reads to make sense of the world, who reads to form and refine their opinions about the state of humanity; someone who wants our species to be better than it is.\u00a0<\/p><p>We think it\u2019ll be someone who doesn\u2019t seek constant distraction, and who isn\u2019t afraid to tackle a work that will make them think, or challenge their beliefs, or lead them to learn things they didn\u2019t know they didn\u2019t know.\u00a0<\/p><p>We think it\u2019ll be someone who wants a book to use grown-up language, to acknowledge that readers aren&#8217;t all nine years old, that readers have intellect. We think it\u2019ll be someone who wants the characters they invest in to be real \u2013 to grow and develop and make hard decisions and experience complex emotions, to be the heart of the work rather than puppets dangling on the skirts of a self-propelling plot.<\/p><p>We think our readers are most likely to be smart, compassionate, open-minded people. They won\u2019t necessarily have a background in either philosophy or literary fiction, but they\u2019re nevertheless curious and perceptive and thoughtful. They\u2019ll demand a lot from what they read, and we hope they\u2019ll appreciate it when we get it right.<\/p><p>If this sounds like you, please bookmark our site and become part of the philosophical literary community.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Phenomenology Press Our Origin Phenomenology Press was established in mid-2019 to manage the publishing and release of Andrew Fookes\u2019 debut novel In Body, In Mind, and to support the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-772","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":null,"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/772\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}