Herne , French publisher founded in 1963, finds its origin in a hoax of students. Since 1957 indeed, Dominique the Russet-red ones and Georges Bez, writers talented and anticonformist, published in room of the texts and the lampoons written, typed and read by a group of friends. Then the first two books, devoted to Rene-Guy Cadou (1961) and Georges Bernanos (1962) marked the advent of the famous white collection. Some subscribers souscrirent there at once, and, the polemic helping, of many readers. With Herne had been born a parallel academy, adversary of conventions and commemorations.

Thus, the following numbers of the collection were dedicated to giants of the literature and poetry, quite as marginal, at the time, as discussed: Celine (1963), Borges (1964), Pound (1965), Michaux (1966), Burroughs (1968), Ungaretti (1969), Gombrowicz, Massignon, and some others.

1972- 2000

Herne under the direction of Constantin Tacou

In 1972, after having put in building site number 21, devoted to De Gaulle, Dominique de Roux leaves Herne to found the Books H, with the editions the Old one of Man. The relay passes then to Constantin Tacou. Raise of Dumézil, scenario writer macédo-Rumanian with UNESCO, it is under its impulse that Herne turns to the East and offers a new life to a circle of missing authors, such as Mann (1973), Dostoievski (1974), Kraus (1975), Meyrink (1976), Musil (1982), Jung (1984), Hölderlin (1989), or Nietsche (2000). Herne opens also its doors on the fantastic one - Edgar Poe, Jules Verne or Jean Ray- without to neglect his contemporaries, while starting with Eliade, compatriot of Constantin Tacou, then Abellio, Corbin, Ponge and Levinas. At the end of 2000, Constantin Tacou sees leaving the presses its last Book, number 74, devoted to August Strindberg. Its last dream of editor, a Cioran Book, is always in building site and will appear in 2009.

After 2000

As from 2001, under the direction of Laurence Tacou , Herne devotes its Books to the largest contemporary philosophers.

After forty years of navigation eclectic and inspired, Herne - as Hydre of the same name changes third once of head. Laurence Tacou then takes again the reins of the small house, which moves street of Verneuil to settle with the foot of the Institute, street Mazarine. The large critical monographs will continue to take the opposite course to the currents in vogue, by questioning works in a singular way in order to give a new prospect to authors and texts occulted, marginalized, or quite to the contrary excessively celebrated. With the Books, the course will be put on the contemporaries, and in particular on the philosophers who questioned most intensely our time: Levi-Strauss, Chomsky, Ricoeur, Derrida. With the publication of the Steiner Book - which intervenes at the time when the house celebrates its forty years of existence, in 2003 - or of the Baudrillard Book, in 2005, Herne remains faithful to its vocation of the first times: to dynamite the generally accepted ideas. More than four thousand collaborators, writers, academics and translators of the whole world will to date have contributed to the Books, thus creating, far from the beaten paths, an institution undoubtedly single in the world.

Around the Books

the various collections ramified:

• Myths and religions opens its pages with authors who question the history of the religions as well as the spirituality and the mystic of great civilizations.
• Tests and philosophy proposes the comments and the reflections of the thinkers of our time on topical questions as about the fundamental searches of humanity.
• Theory and strategy gathers the writings scholars and sometimes causing military and political specialists, as well as the options of the theorists and experts implied in the debate and the action of the contemporary geopolitical field.
• back is composed of texts rare and invaluable, short and radical, new or missings.
• Glose offers the basic books, the reflections and the comments of the great writers of our time.
• Romans gathers contemporary and traditional, foreign and French, with for only constant the eclecticism of the bottom and the elegance of the form.
• the Notebooks constitute a prolongation in the Books of Herne exhausted, devoted to the most important thinkers of our century. The proposed texts allow an direct access with the meditations, reflections and testimonys of these authors who formed the contemporary thought.
• the Books of social anthropology publish the work led to the laboratory of social anthropology of the Collège de France, and offer a precise sight of the anthropological approach on some broad topics of topicality.

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