Dukh i Litera («Дух і літера») is a
Ukrainian publishing house that was founded in 1992. It is based in
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and operates on a
not-for-profit
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basis. Dukh i Litera publishes scholarly titles in both Ukrainian and Russian, predominantly in the
humanities and
social sciences. Additionally, Duh i Litera focuses on publishing books concerning
Ukrainian,
Jewish, and
French
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** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
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history and culture.
Duh i Litera is the foremost publisher of
Jewish Studies
Jewish studies (or Judaic studies; he, מדעי היהדות, madey ha-yahadut, sciences of Judaism) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history (esp ...
works in Ukraine. It has produced the Ukrainian translations of the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, books by
Martin Buber,
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (, born Eliezer Wiesel ''Eliezer Vizel''; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored Elie Wiesel b ...
,
Claude Lanzmann,
The Black Book
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Film
* ''Black Book'' (film), a 2006 Dutch thriller film by director Paul Verhoeven
** ''Black Book'' (soundtrack), soundtrack of the 2006 film
* ''The Black Book'' (serial), a 1929 American ...
by
Vasily Grossman and
Ilya Ehrenburg (prohibited in the USSR by censorship of the Stalin times), as well as many other major publications.
Publications
Translations
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Sieur de Montaigne ( ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as the Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a liter ...
,
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Thomas Hobbes
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Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson
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Emmanuel Levinas
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Simone Weil
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Paul Ricœur
Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (; ; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. As such, his thought is within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic ...
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Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.
Arendt was born ...
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Christos Yannaras
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Zygmunt Bauman
Ukrainian authors
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Vasyl Stus
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Ivan Dzyuba
Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba ( uk, Іва́н Миха́йлович Дзю́ба; 26 July 1931 – 22 February 2022) was a Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, Soviet dissidents, dissident, Hero of Ukraine, academic of National Academy of Sci ...
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Myhailyna Kotsubynska
See also
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List of publishing companies of Ukraine
References
External links
Official site (Ukrainian language)*https://duh-i-litera.com/about_us_en
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Publishing companies of Ukraine