Éditions Galilée is a French

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located in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

, and was founded in

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

by Michel Delorme. It specializes in philosophy,

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s and

human sciences Human science (or human sciences in the plural), also known as humanistic social science and moral science (or moral sciences), studies the philosophical, biological, social, and cultural aspects of human life. Human science aims to expand our u ...

. Focusing on the

deconstructionist The term deconstruction refers to approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. It was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who defined it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences ...

thought of Jacques Derrida, Galilée also publishes works on

postmodernist Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of moderni ...

thought (

Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard ( , , ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as ...

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 ...

, etc.). In 2008, their catalogue consisted of around 900 titlesAnnuaire des maisons d'édition : Les éditions Galilée
on the site of ''

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'', 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 Elisabeth 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 Jacques Derrida 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 Holo ...

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, as well as multiple issues of the review ''Chorus'' edited by

Pierre Tilman Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

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

, ''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 psychiatr ...

, ''Vitesse et politique'' by

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

were also published in 1977. In 1979, Christian Boltanski created for ''Farce'' by

Jean-Marie Touratier Jean-Marie Touratier (1943 – 1 February 2021) was a French writer, author, and artistic director. Biography Touratier earned an agrégation In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French publi ...

, 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'', followd 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 one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and liter ...

'' and

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

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 the founder in 2005 of the polit ...

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 critic. She is known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, her work dealing with multiple genres: theater, literary an ...

(''Voiles'', with Jacques Derrida, 1998),

Michel Deguy Michel Deguy (23 May 1930 – 16 February 2022) was a French poet and translator. Biography Deguy was born in Paris on 23 May 1930. He taught French literature at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) for many years. He also served as di ...

(''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 Marc Crépon (born 30 March 1962) is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. He has also translated works by p ...

(''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'' won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize. ''Terrasse à Rome'' (Terrasse in Rome), received the Fren ...

(''Écrits de l'éphémère'', 2005, along with five other books the same year), (''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. In 1944 he att ...

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-gar ...

, Christian Boltanski,

Pol Bury Pol Bury (26 April 1922 – 28 September 2005) was a Belgian sculptor who began his artistic career as a painter in the Jeune Peintre Belge and COBRA groups. Among his most famous works is the fountain-sculpture L'Octagon, located in San Franci ...

, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo,

Leonardo Cremonini Leonardo Cremonini (1925-2010) was an Italian visual artist. Life Leonardo Cremonini was the son of a railway worker who taught him the basics of painting. In 1935, his father had to relocate to Calabria for professional reasons. The Tyrrhenian ...

Henri Cueco Henri Cueco (19 October 1929 – 13 March 2017) was a French painter, essayist, novelist and radio personality. As a self-taught painter, his work was exhibited internationally. He was the author of several books, including collections of essays a ...

, Dado, ,

Erro Erro may refer to: * Erro, Navarre, a municipality in the autonomous community of Navarre, Spain * Erro (river), a river in north-west Italy * Erro (crater), a lunar crater named after the astronomer * " Meu Erro", a song on Os Paralamas do Suce ...

Gérard Garouste Gérard Garouste (born 10 March 1946) is a French 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 educational and s ...

Peter Klasen Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

, Jean Le Gac,

Simon Hantaï Simon Hantaï (7 December 1922, Biatorbágy, Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary – Paris, 12 September 2008; took France, French nationality in 1966) is a painter generally associated with abstract art. Biography After studying at the Budapest School ...

, Paul Jenkins, François Martin, Raymond Mason, Jacques Monory, Danièle Noël, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, François Rouan,

Antonio Segui Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...

, Takis,

Antoni Tàpies Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tápies (; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. Life The son of Josep Tàpies i M ...

Vladimir Veličković Vladimir Veličković ( sr-cyr, Владимир Величковић; 11 August 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Serbian painter who spent much of his adult life in Paris. Biography Veličković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Be ...

Main collections

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

Main authors

Marc Augé Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (1995), Marc 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 p ...

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 ...

* *

* Jacques Derrida *

Serge Doubrovsky Julien Serge Doubrovsky (22 May 1928, Paris – 23 March 2017, Boulogne-Billancourt) 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 h ...

* Jean-Joseph Goux * Sarah Kofman *

Jean Le Gac Jean Le Gac (born May 6, 1936, in Alès, France) is a French conceptual artist, painter, pastelist, photographer using mixed media, frequently video or photography and text to document his investigations and sketched scenes. His poetic photographic ...

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 diplomatiq ...

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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