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").

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.

Humanitas (publishing house)

Currently, Humanitas publishes literature, books on philosophy, religion, social and political sciences, history, memoirs, popular science, children's literature, and self-help books.

Humanitas (publishing house)

Main Romanian authors published by Humanitas

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

External links

Humanitas publishing house

Humanitas Fiction

Humanitas Multimedia

Librăriile Humanitas

Publishing companies established in 1990

Companies based in Bucharest

Book publishing companies of Romania

Mass media in Bucharest

Humanitas (publishing house)