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| Status | Active |
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| 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 (Romanian:Editura Humanitas) is an independentRomanianpublishing house, located at Piața Presei Libere 1 (House of the Free Press),Bucharest. It was founded on February 1, 1990 (after theRomanian Revolution) by the philosopherGabriel Liiceanu, based on a state-owned publishing house,Editura Politică. Its slogan isHumanitas, bunul gust al libertății ("Humanitas, the good taste of freedom").[1]
During its first years, Humanitas mainly published authors from theRomanian diaspora, whose works had been subject tocensorship or banning inCommunist Romania; they includeEmil Cioran,Mircea Eliade, andEugène Ionesco.
Currently, Humanitas publishes literature, books onphilosophy, religion,social andpolitical sciences, history, memoirs,popular science,children's literature, and self-help books.
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