Humanitas (publishing house)

Humanitas

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Status	Active
Predecessor	Editura Politică
Founded	February 1, 1990; 34 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

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.