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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]
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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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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
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