Katz Editores is an independent

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scholarly publisher, founded in 2006. It publishes mostly translations from English, German, French, and Italian into Spanish, but also original Spanish-language texts. As of April 2009, their list numbered over 100 titles by authors representing a diverse array of intellectual traditions, such as

Karl Löwith Karl Löwith (9 January 1897 – 26 May 1973) was a German philosopher in the phenomenological tradition. A student of Husserl and Heidegger, he was one of the most prolific German philosophers of the twentieth century. He is known for his two ...

Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's wor ...

Michael Walzer Michael Laban Walzer (born 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of ''Dissent'', an intellectual magazine ...

, Roger Chartier, Claus Offe,

Martha Nussbaum Martha Craven Nussbaum (; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosoph ...

, Seyla Benhabib,

Cass Sunstein Cass Robert Sunstein (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar known for his studies of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, law and behavioral economics. He is also ''The New York Times'' best-selling author of ...

, Harry Frankfurt,

Leo Strauss Leo Strauss (, ; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. ...

Norbert Bolz Norbert Bolz (born 17 April 1953) is a German media theorist. He served as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin until his retirement in 2018. Bolz developed a media theory, the ''""'', that is influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Walte ...

, Michel de Certeau, Roberto Esposito,

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

, Cornelius Castoriadis, Hans Belting, Robert Laughlin, and Eric Kandel. The editors wrote in their first catalog that they founded their press "with a calling to contribute to broadening the horizons of knowledge available in our language, but also with the conviction that it is necessary to interrogate many of the ideas that organize the viewpoints of the contemporary world."

Book series

All of Katz's books are published in one of four series: * Conocimiento ("Knowledge" or "Consciousness" in Spanish). * Difusión ("Diffusion" in Spanish). * Discusiones ("Discussions" or "Arguments" in Spanish). * Dixit ("He/she/it said" in Latin), print editions of public lectures given at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, with which the series is a co-production.

Design

Katz is well known for the high production values of its books, which are designed by the firm Tholön Kunst of Buenos Aires and Barcelona."Katz editores.
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Tholön Kunst's designs for Katz, almost without exception imageless, feature bold blocks of color and understatedly elegant typography, with a distinctive, instantly recognizable layout for each individual series.

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