Publishing house
Writing on ideas, culture, and knowledge
Grothendieck House publishes nonfiction, essays, and works of inquiry in science, language, politics, philosophy, mathematics, culture, and intellectual history.
Language, Time, and the Rise of Information
Dan Herbatschek
The future now arrives in fragments. The weather as a confidence interval, traffic as a probability, a sentence finished in pale gray. We call this a technological condition. The Predictive Present argues it is, more deeply, a condition of language and of time.
Mind, Meaning, and the Human World
Dan Herbatschek
Language is a system of signs. A way of being in time with another mind. A sentence is less a string of symbols than an act of coordination; between speaker and listener, memory and anticipation, the world as it is and the world as it is taken to be. How Language Works begins there.
Editorial position
Grothendieck House publishes nonfiction and essays that move between disciplines without diluting the subject. The list includes work in science, language, politics, philosophy, mathematics, culture, and intellectual history.
We are interested in writing that clarifies a question, traces an idea through its consequences, and gives the reader a more exact way to think.
The list is selective by design. Each title should have a reason to exist beyond its moment.
Grothendieck House is a publishing house for nonfiction, essays, and works of inquiry. Its list moves through science, language, politics, mathematics, philosophy, culture, and intellectual history, with an interest in writing that treats ideas as consequential.
We publish authors who can move between fields without flattening them: writers attentive to argument, history, structure, and the forms through which knowledge is made. The aim is a list held together not by a single discipline, but by a shared attention to clarity, structure, and the history of ideas.
The name Grothendieck House reflects an interest in foundational thinking: the underlying structures, languages, and assumptions through which problems become visible.