Welcome to Cassiodorus Press
A publishing house dedicated to preserving the tradition of the classical liberal arts.
Falling Inward, Second Edition
Now Available for Pre-Order!
In this second and expanded edition of Falling Inward: Humanities in the Age of Technology, Jason Baxter provides a forgotten yet compelling answer to the question, “Why study the humanities?” While many invitations to the humanities center on calls for self-improvement, Baxter beckons readers away from a utilitarian view of the humanities—and of life in general—towards a vision of enjoying the arts as an explorer would, traversing a rich and variegated landscape of beauty that resonates with the depths within us and beyond us.
Baxter draws together a dialogue with the humanities that ranges from Plato to Christopher Nolan, from the symphony of a Gothic cathedral to the solitude a Wyoming sky, weaving in conversations with the sciences along the way. A new introduction and epilogue broaden the context of this conversation, ever reminding readers that a love of the humanities can awaken a love for the sublime structure of this world.
Why Literature Still Matters
“It may well be our Abolition of Man.” – Dr. Anne Phillips
In this wide-ranging and accessible work, Jason M. Baxter puts our contemporary culture in conversation with literature and its “sister arts” to make the compelling—and sometimes chilling—case not just for the relevance but urgency of the humane tradition as we enter our “digital apocalypse.” Baxter draws on his areas of expertise, Dante and C.S. Lewis; his background in teaching the great books, art history, and music history; as well as his own travel literature to give his readers an almost sensuous feeling for what the alternative to our tech-obsessed culture is.
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About Dr. Jason Baxter
I am a speaker, author, and college professor. I write on the relevance of medieval beauty, especially, as it relates to Dante and C.S. Lewis. I am now the Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture, at Benedictine College, where I oversee a program for bright college students who have a heart for the holiness of beauty (Angelico Fellows).
Our Story
Standing in the ruins of a sixth-century Rome which was crumbling under Ostrogothic rule, a man named Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus envisioned a house of learning which would preserve the eroding liberal arts tradition.
This vision being rejected by Rome itself, he retreated to his family estate in southern Italy and there laid the foundation of what would become the Vivarium, a scriptorium dedicated to preserving and translating the cornerstone texts of Cassiodorus’ classical and Christian heritage.
Thanks to his work, we have inherited a harmonised understanding of the seven liberal arts of antiquity, many early Christian commentaries on Scripture, and the earliest surviving copy of the Bible in one volume.
Cassiodorus Press hopes to work in the tradition which was laid down at the Vivarium by likewise preserving texts essential to that tradition.
Our Mission
Cassiodorus Press is a publishing house dedicated to preserving the tradition of the classical liberal arts as it was harmonized by the early and medieval church fathers. The Press focuses primarily on scholarly translations of ancient and medieval texts, while also publishing new works which help the lay reader to enter into this rich body of literature.
The House of Humane Letters
The House of Humane Letters, our sister company, is dedicated to recovering the lost intellectual tradition of the liberal arts. This intellectual tradition was passed down for centuries from teachers to students.
In the twentieth century that chain was broken, but the tradition has not been irretrievably lost. It can still be found in manuscripts waiting to be translated. Just as a generation of Renaissance students was inspired by the recovery of language and lost manuscripts, so Cassiodorus Press hopes to aid a new generation of scholars.