Humanitas (Romanian: Editura Humanitas) is an independent Romanian publishing house, founded on February 1, 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution) in Bucharest by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu. Its slogan is Humanitas, bunul gust al libertăţii ("Humanitas, the good taste of freedom").
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
- Lucian Blaga
- Lucian Boia
- Mircea Cărtărescu
- Emil Cioran
- Lena Constante
- Petru Creţia
- Neagu Djuvara
- Mircea Eliade
- Paul Goma
- Virgil Ierunca
- Eugène Ionesco
- Gabriel Liiceanu
- Monica Lovinescu
- Constantin Noica
- Horia-Roman Patapievici
- Andrei Pleşu
- Queen Anne of Romania
- Dumitru Stăniloae
External links
- (Romanian) Humanitas publishing house
- (Romanian) Humanitas educational
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