Éditions Galilée is a French publishing house in Paris, and was founded in 1971 by Michel Delorme. It specializes in philosophy,

French literature French literature () generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by French people, French citizens; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of Franc ...

, arts and

human sciences Human science (or human sciences in the plural) studies the philosophical, biological, social, justice, and cultural aspects of human life. Human science aims to expand the understanding of the human world through a broad interdisciplinary appro ...

. Focusing on the

deconstructionist In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understand the relationship between Text (literary theory), text and Meaning (linguistics), meaning. The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques ...

thought of

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...

, Galilée also publishes works on

postmodernist Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

thought (

Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard (, ; ; – 6 March 2007) was a French sociology, sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as hi ...

Jean-François Lyotard Jean-François Lyotard (; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and p ...

, etc.). In 2008, their catalogue consisted of around 900 titlesAnnuaire des maisons d'édition : Les éditions Galilée
on the site of '' La République des Lettres'', 15 January 2009. and was run by Michel Delorme (CEO, editorial director).

History

Éditions Galilée was founded in 1971. In 1973, Éditions Galilée published the 1973 ''Critique du capitalisme quotidien'' by Michel Bosquet; ''Les Figures juives de Marx'' by Élisabeth de Fontenay; ''Le Discours impur'' by Jean-Noël Vuarnet; ''Camera obscura : de l'idéologie'' by Sarah Kofman; ''Le Titre de la lettre'' by

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ( ; ; 6 March 1940 – 28 January 2007) was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator. Lacoue-Labarthe published several influential works with his friend Jean-Luc Nancy. Lacoue-Labarthe was ...

; and

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( ; ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...

; ''L'Archéologie du frivole'' by

in the preface to ''L'Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines'' by Condillac; and ''La Remarque spéculative'' by Jean-Luc Nancy. Less than a year later, Derrida, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe and Kofman created the collection "La philosophie en effet" which Derrida inaugurated with the publication of ''Glas''. It was in the same collection that Sarah Kofman published ''Quatre romans analytiques'' shortly after. In 1974,

Georges Perec Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Ho ...

published '' Espèces d'espaces'', and ''Alphabets'' in 1976. In 1974 and 1975, éditions Galilée published the first five issues of the review ''Digraphe'', edited by

Jean Ristat Jean Ristat (1 June 1943 – 2 December 2023) was a French poet and writer. Life and career Jean Ristat founded the magazine collection ''Digraph'' in 1974 in literature, 1974, as suggested by his professor of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, whic ...

, as well as multiple issues of the review ''Chorus'' edited by Pierre Tilman. The mixture of artists, works, and work with books and their creators, which was the founding ethos of Galilée, led to further publications from Marcel Duchamp and the fictional Jean Clair, ''L'Invention du corps chrétien'' by Jean-Louis Schefer, and Wifredo Lam publishing ''Dessins'' (1975). Further, ''Détruire la peinture'' by Louis Marin, ''Les Transformateurs Duchamp'' by

(1977). ''Oublier Foucault'' by Jean Baudrillard, ''Fondements pour une morale'' by

André Gorz Gérard Horst (; , ; 9 February 1923 – 22 September 2007), more commonly known by his pen names André Gorz () and Michel Bosquet (), was an Austrian-French social philosopher and journalist and critic of work. He co-founded '' Le Nouvel Ob ...

, ''L'Éboulement'' by

Jacques Dupin Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal '' L'éphemère''. Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychia ...

, ''Vitesse et politique'' by

Paul Virilio Paul Virilio (; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French Culture theory, cultural theorist, Urban planning, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation ...

were also published in 1977. In 1979, Christian Boltanski created for ''Farce'' by Jean-Marie Touratier, an original cover and created a separate original cover with an opening window showing a sugar cage created by Boltanski in 1971. Pierre Restany published ''L'Autre Face de l'art'' the same year. In 1980,

published ''De la séduction'',

: Vitesse et politique, Jean Oury : ''Onze heures du soir à la Borde'', Jean-Clarence Lambert : ''Le Noir de l'azur'', followed in 1984, Jean-Joseph Goux, ''Les monnayeurs du langage'', Christine Buci-Glucksmann : ''La Raison baroque'' and in 1986, Michel Ragon : ''25 ans d'art vivant'' ; finally, to close the decade, Michel Sicard published his ''Essais sur

Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French ph ...

'' and

Félix Guattari Pierre-Félix Guattari ( ; ; 30 March 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, Semiotics, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and created ecosophy ...

released his ''Cartographies schizoanalytiques'' in 1989. In the following years,

Bernard Stiegler Bernard Stiegler (; 1 April 1952 – 5 August 2020) was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also founder of the political and c ...

released his first title for Galilée with La Technique et le Temps I in 1994, Philippe Bonnefis (first title at Galilée : ''Parfums'', in 1995), Ignacio Ramonet (''Géopolitique du chaos'', 1997),

Hélène Cixous Hélène Cixous (; ; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and Literary criticism, literary critic. During her academic career, she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes (today's University of Paris VIII) ...

(''Voiles'', with Jacques Derrida, 1998), Michel Deguy (''La Raison poétique'', 2000), Serge Margel (''Logique de la nature'', 2000),

Michel Onfray Michel Onfray (; born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such think ...

(''Célébration du génie colérique'', 2002), Marc Crépon (''Terreur et poésie'', 2004),

Pascal Quignard Pascal Quignard (; born 23 April 1948) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure. In 2002 his novel ''Les Ombres errantes'' (''The Roving Shadows'') won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize. ''Terrasse à Rome'' (''A Terrace i ...

(''Écrits de l'éphémère'', 2005, along with five other books the same year), Joseph Cohen (''Le spectre juif de Hegel'', 2005), Stéphane Sangral (''Méandres et Néant'', 2013), and many others. Other artists continued to publish with the company: Valerio Adami,

Pierre Alechinsky Pierre Alechinsky (; born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction. Life Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium, to ...

Karel Appel Christiaan Karel Appel (; 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-gard ...

, Christian Boltanski,

Pol Bury Pol Bury (26 April 1922 – 28 September 2005) was a Belgians, Belgian sculptor who began his artistic career as a painter in the Jeune Peintre Belge and COBRA (avant-garde movement), COBRA groups. Among his most famous works is the fountain-scul ...

Corneille Guillaume Beverloo Corneille – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (3 July 1922 – 5 September 2010), better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist. Corneille was born in Liège, Belgium, although his parents were Dutch and moved back to the Nether ...

, Leonardo Cremonini, Henri Cueco, Dado, , Erro,

Gérard Garouste Gérard Garouste (born 10 March 1946) is a French Contemporary art, contemporary artist having the primary field of work as visual and performative domain. Since 1979, he has lived and worked in Marcilly-sur-Eure in Normandy, where he founded an ...

, Peter Klasen, Jean Le Gac, Simon Hantaï, Paul Jenkins, François Martin, Raymond Mason, Jacques Monory, Danièle Noël, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, François Rouan, Antonio Segui,

Takis Takis may refer to: * Takis (snack), a spicy, roll-shaped snack * Takis Christoforidis, a Greek actor * Takis Fotopoulos, a Greek political philosopher * Takis Ikonomopoulos, a Greek football player * Takis Kanellopoulos a Greek film director * Tak ...

Antoni Tàpies Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tápies, Marquess of Tàpies (; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalans, Catalan painter, sculptor, and art theorist. Life The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni T ...

, Vladimir Veličković.

Main collections

* « Débats » * « L'espace critique » * « Incises » * « Écritures / Figures » * « La philosophie en effet » * « Lignes fictives »

Main authors

Marc Augé Marc Augé (; 2 September 1935 – 24 July 2023) was a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (1995), Augé coined the phrase " non-place" to refer to sp ...

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016, Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was a ...

Christine Buci-Glucksmann Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a French philosopher and Professor Emeritus from University of Paris VIII specializing in the aesthetics of the Baroque and Japan, and computer art. Her best-known work in English is ''Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of ...

* Joseph Cohen * Michel Deguy *

Serge Doubrovsky Julien Serge Doubrovsky (22 May 1928 – 23 March 2017) was a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis winner for '' Le Livre brisé''. He is also a critical theorist, and coined the term " autofiction" in the drafts for his novel ''Fils'' (1977). ...

* Jean-Joseph Goux * Sarah Kofman *

* Jean Le Gac *

Serge Margel
*

Ignacio Ramonet Ignacio Ramonet Miguez (born 5 May 1943) is a Spanish academic, journalist, and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career. After becoming first known for writing on film and media, he became editor-in-chief of ''Le Monde diplomati ...

Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière (; ; born 10 June 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis. After co-authoring ...

* Stéphane Sangral * Jean-Louis Schefer *

Notes and references

External links

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