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Pierre Lévy
Armand Mattelart
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Eric Cline
Gérard Noiriel
Enzo Traverso
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel
Robert S. Boyer
Bruno Amable
Alain Lipietz
Branko Milanovic
Pierre Salama
Bernard Lahire
Nancy Fraser
Estelle Ferrarese
Achille Mbembe
James C. Scott
Judith Butler
Elsa Dorlin
Éric Fassin
Bertrand Badie
Georges Corm
Yves Lacoste
Axel Honneth
Hartmut Rosa
Selected titles
Tête de Turc by Günter Wallraff (1986)
Le Harcèlement moral by Marie-France Hirigoyen (Syros, 1998)
Là-bas si j'y suis by Daniel Mermet (1999)
Notre ami Ben Ali by Jean-Pierre Tuquoi and Nicolas Beau (1999)
Le monde n'est pas une marchandise by José Bové and François Dufour (2000)
La Sale Guerre by Habib Souaïdia (2001)
Françalgérie by Lounis Aggoun and Jean-Baptiste Rivoire (2004)
La Fracture coloniale edited by Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, and Sandrine Lemaire (2005)
L'Histoire secrète de la Ve République edited by Roger Faligot, Jean Guisnel, and Rémi Kauffer (2006)
Storytelling by Christian Salmon (2007)
Le Monde selon Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin (2008)
L'Histoire secrète du patronat edited by Benoît Collombat and David Servenay (2009)
Kamerun by Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue, and Jacob Tatsitsa (2011)
Le féminisme en mouvements: des années 1960 à l'ère néolibérale by Nancy Fraser and Estelle Ferrarese. Paris. ISBN 9782707194534. (2012)
Le Jeûne, une nouvelle thérapie by Thierry de Lestrade (2013)
Pour les musulmans by Edwy Plenel (2014)
Le Piège Daech by Pierre-Jean Luizard (2015)
Les Arabes, leur destin et le nôtre by Jean-Pierre Filiu (2015)
Ceci est mon sang by Élise Thiébaut (2017)
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour (2017)
La Caste by Laurent Mauduit (2018)
Histoire populaire du football by Michaël Correia (2018)
La Puissance des mères by Fatima Ouassak (2020)
La Fabrique des pandémies by Marie-Monique Robin (2021)
Une poupée en chocolat by Amandine Gay
Selected translations
La Fin du travail by Jeremy Rifkin (1996)
Dégraissez-moi ça by Michael Moore (2000)
Mike contre-attaque by Michael Moore (2002)
Tous aux abris! by Michael Moore (2004)
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk (2005)
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford (2010)
Imprints, collections, and periodicals
Hérodote is one of the many periodicals published by La Découverte. It was founded in 1976 by Yves Lacoste and is currently directed by Béatrice Giblin. The journal Hérodote is a quarterly publication specializing in geopolitics. "Hérodote" is the French spelling for Herodotus, the Ancient Greek historian.
In 2005, La Découverte spearheaded the launch of Cairn.info—a portal for humanities and social sciences publications—along with three other publishing houses: Éditions Belin, De Boeck, and Éditions Érès.
In 2007, La Découverte launched Zones, an imprint directed by Grégoire Chamayou, which publishes authors such as Mona Chollet, Cédric Durand, Michel and Monique Pinçon-Charlot, among others.
In 2008, La Découverte welcomed the imprint Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, directed by Philippe Pignarre, which publishes authors such as Vinciane Despret, Bruno Latour, Bertrand Méheust, Isabelle Stengers, Anna L. Tsing, and Nastassja Martin. That same year saw the launch of the "Théorie critique" series, directed by Olivier Voirol.
In 2015, La Découverte acquired Dominique Carré’s publishing house, which specialized in illustrated books with a scientific focus—particularly in urban planning. That same year, La Découverte launched the periodical Revue du crieur in partnership with Mediapart and, in the same year, the "Culture Sonore" series—co-published with the Philharmonie de Paris—was established, as was the "L'envers des faits" series, directed by Stéphane Beaud (until 2019), Paul Pasquali, and Fabien Truong.
