Humanitas (publishing house)

Romanian publishing house

Humanitas

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Status| Active
Predecessor| Editura Politică
Founded| February 1, 1990; 35 years ago (1990-02-01)
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.ro
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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.

## Main Romanian authors published by Humanitas

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* Lucian Blaga
* Ana Blandiana
* Lucian Boia
* Matei Călinescu
* Mircea Cărtărescu
* Emil Cioran
* Lena Constante
* Petru Creția
* Neagu Djuvara
* Mircea Eliade
* Paul Goma
* Virgil Ierunca
* Eugène Ionesco
* Gabriel Liiceanu
* Monica Lovinescu
* Constantin Noica
* Ion Mihai Pacepa
* Horia-Roman Patapievici
* Andrei Pleșu
* Queen Anne of Romania
* Dumitru Stăniloae

## References

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1. ^ "Istoric | Humanitas". 2020-02-17. Archived from the original on 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2021-04-19.

## External links

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* (in Romanian) Humanitas publishing house
* (in Romanian) Humanitas Fiction
* (in Romanian) Humanitas Multimedia
* (in Romanian) Librăriile Humanitas

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* United States

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