Concept
HarperCollins
Overview
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American multinational publishing conglomerate that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is headquartered in London and New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The company's name is derived from a combination of the firm's predecessors. Harper & Brothers, founded in 1817 in New York, merged with Row, Peterson & Company in 1962 to form Harper & Row, which was acquired by News Corp in 1987. The Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons, founded in 1819 in Glasgow, was acquired by News Corp in 1987 and merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins. The logo for the firm combines the fire from Harper's torch and the water from Collins' fountain.
HarperCollins operates publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China, and publishes under various imprints.
Brian Murray has been the company's president and chief executive since 2008.
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Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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that the arts had made the tour of the globe. The last province is Kamtshatka, the most eastern part of the continent. The inhabitants were absolutely void of all religion when they were first discovered. The north part of this country likewise affords fine furs, with which the inhabitants clothed themselves in winter, though they went naked all the summer season. The first discoverers were surprised to find in the…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
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Dante Alighieri, The New Life
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Philosophers who discussed HarperCollins
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- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Antony Flew
- Peter Marshall (travel writer)
- Thomas Aquinas
- Voltaire
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Baruch Spinoza
- Blaise Pascal
- Antonio Gramsci
- Rudolf Otto
- Alfred Korzybski
- Dante Alighieri
- Luigi Galvani
- Edmund Husserl
- Hannah Arendt
- Jean Piaget
- Lawrence Krauss
- David Edmonds (philosopher)
- Rajneesh movement
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- The Bookseller
- Collins English Dictionary
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- Peer review
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- Erich Fromm
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.