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| Status | Active |
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| Predecessor | Editura Politică |
| Founded | February 1, 1990 |
| Founder | Gabriel Liiceanu |
| Country of origin | Romania |
| Headquarters location | Piața Presei Libere 1 (House of the Free Press), Bucharest |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Humanitas Classic Humanitas Fiction Humanitas Junior Humanitas Multimedia |
| Official website | www |
Humanitas (Romanian: Editura Humanitas) is an independent Romanian publishing house, located at Piața Presei Libere 1 (House of the Free Press), Bucharest. It was founded on February 1, 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution) by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu, based on a state-owned publishing house, Editura Politică. Its slogan is Humanitas, bunul gust al libertății ("Humanitas, the good taste of freedom").[1]
During its first years, Humanitas mainly published authors from the Romanian diaspora, whose works had been subject to censorship or banning in Communist Romania; they include Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade, and Eugène Ionesco.
Currently, Humanitas publishes literature, books on philosophy, religion, social and political sciences, history, memoirs, popular science, children's literature, and self-help books.