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www.<strong>idea</strong>editura.ro<br />
www.<strong>idea</strong>magazine.ro<br />
IDEA publishing house was born as a theoretical and practical project at the same time. Committed to publishing texts<br />
as implements of reflection upon the artistic, the social, and the political, the editorial staff started with a clear set of minimum<br />
goals: the translation into Romanian of major texts of contemporary philosophy and recent theory of art. By this,<br />
IDEA aims to insert into the Romanian public debates interrogations which are exemplary for the world we live in. However,<br />
this means more than “importing” certain “<strong>idea</strong>s”. By promoting a certain type of writing – that in which the language<br />
experimentally but rigorously explores its logical and expressive resources – the publishing house intends to refresh,<br />
by the very gesture of translation or through original texts, the critical (i.e. philosophical) idiom of Romanian. In other words,<br />
to orient our possibilities of thinking toward the criticality of what happens to us today.<br />
Accepting its condition as a small, non-commercial publishing house, IDEA has, since 2001, run two series – Balcon and<br />
Panopticon. Providing important guiding marks for mapping the realm of modern and contemporary arts, the first series<br />
includes such authors as Benjamin, Barthes, de Duve, Flusser, Groys, Babias, Lovink, Lacoue-Labarthe or materials on the<br />
work of artists as Joseph Beuys. For the first time in the Romanian public space, contemporary art theory is brought along<br />
in a coherent and meaningful fashion. In this way, the elucidative and analytical potential of art theory provides a conceptual<br />
toolbox useful to both theorists and artists.<br />
In the second series, by publishing thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, J.-L. Nancy, G. Granel, Sloterdijk,<br />
Baudrillard, G. M. Tamás, Agamben, Arendt, we would like not only to connect the reader to the “avant-garde” of contemporary<br />
philosophical thought, but also to provide the public with major readings of questions burdening our contemporary<br />
societies: power and the political, the predicaments of representation and historicity, the fall of communism, the crisis of<br />
academia, globalization, (post)modernity, nihilism, etc.<br />
ÎN PREGÆTIRE / COMING SOON<br />
Last, but not least, with its recent series the publishing house has also committed itself to the production of applied critical<br />
discourses, taking as its starting point the present political situations and intellectual contexts – a simultaneously global J. Derrida, B. Stiegler:<br />
and local theoretical endeavour. These new collections operate under titles such as Refracflii [Refractions] – dedicated to Ecografii. Despre televiziune<br />
cultural and socio-political analyses in situ; Praxis – dealing with the exploration of the concrete strategies of progressive Arthur Danto: Transfigurarea locului comun.<br />
political struggle all over the world; and, finally, Public – covering the various modalities of artistic-democratic self-production<br />
of public space in Romania.<br />
Victor Burgin: Sfîrøitul teoriei<br />
O filosofie a artei<br />
artei<br />
Michel Foucault:<br />
Securitate, teritoriu,<br />
populaflie<br />
14 × 23 cm, 352 pag.<br />
29 lei<br />
Michel Foucault:<br />
Trebuie sæ apæræm<br />
societatea<br />
14 × 23 cm, 239 pag.<br />
29 lei<br />
Mihály Vajda:<br />
Conversaflii<br />
pe malul rîului Ilisos<br />
11,8 × 19,5 cm, 115 pag.<br />
10 lei<br />
Alain Badiou:<br />
Secolul<br />
14 × 23 cm, 175 pag.<br />
25 lei<br />
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe:<br />
Ficfliunea politicului.<br />
Heidegger, arta øi politica<br />
14 × 23 cm, 172 pag.<br />
25 lei<br />
IDEA artæ + societate #32, 2009<br />
20 lei<br />
IDEA artæ + societate #33-34, 2009<br />
40 lei<br />
IDEA artæ + societate #35, 2010<br />
20 lei