Prometheus Books

Prometheus Books est une société d'édition fondée en par le philosophe Paul Kurtz (qui était également le fondateur du Center for Inquiry, et cofondateur du Committee for Skeptical Inquiry). Le nom de l'éditeur est dérivé de Prométhée, le Titan de la mythologie grecque qui a volé le feu à Zeus et l'a donné aux Hommes. Cet acte est souvent utilisé comme métaphore pour le fait d'apporter la connaissance ou l'illumination[1],[2].

Description

Prometheus Books publie une gamme de livres, se concentrant sur des sujets tels que la science, la libre-pensée, la laïcité, l'humanisme et le scepticisme rationnel. Il a publié dans la catégorie athéisme depuis sa fondation en 1969 et est considéré comme le grand-père de l'édition athée en Amérique[3].

Leur siège social était situé à Amherst, New York, et ils publient dans le monde entier. Jonathan Kurtz est président de Prometheus Books[4]. L'éditeur publie environ 95 à 100 livres par an[5]. Depuis sa fondation, Prometheus Books a publié plus de 2 500 livres[6].

Procès

Prometheus Books a été impliqué dans deux « grands procès en diffamation »[7]. En 1992, Uri Geller a poursuivi Victor J. Stenger et Prometheus Books pour diffamation vis-à-vis de son livre Physics and Psychics[8]. La poursuite a été rejetée et Geller a dû payer plus de 20 000 $ à l'accusé[9]. Geller a également poursuivi Prometheus pour avoir publié La vérité sur Uri Geller[10] de James Randi, un livre qui, selon lui, était diffamatoire[11],[12].

Références

  1. ↑ Pyne, « Fire in the mind: changing understandings of fire in Western civilization », Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 371, no 1696,‎ (ISSN 0962-8436, PMID 27216523, PMCID 4874404, DOI 10.1098/rstb.2015.0166, lire en ligne)
  2. ↑ « Prometheus Books », www.prometheusbooks.com (consulté le )
  3. ↑ (en) Winston, « Atheists, the Next Generation: Unbelief Moves Further into the Mainstream », Publishers Weekly,
  4. ↑ (en-US) « Amherst's Prometheus Books sold to Maryland-based publisher », The Buffalo News,
  5. ↑ (en) « Working at Prometheus Books », Glassdoor
  6. ↑ (en-US) « » Prometheus Books: Accepting Submissions »
  7. ↑ (en-US) Kreidler, « History of CSICOP | Skeptical Inquirer »,
  8. ↑ Stenger, Victor J., 1935-2014., Physics and psychics : the search for a world beyond the senses, Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, (ISBN 0-87975-575-X, OCLC 22207643, lire en ligne)
  9. ↑ (en) Geller, Uri, « Uri Geller Libel Suit Dismissed » [archive du ], Committee for Skeptical Inquiry : « Self proclaimed "psychic" Uri Geller had to dismiss a multi-million dollar libel suit and has to pay over $20,000 in sanctions in an action he brought against skeptical book publisher Prometheus Books of Amherst, New York. »
  10. ↑ Randi, James., The truth about Uri Geller, Buffalo, N.Y., Rev., (ISBN 0-87975-199-1, OCLC 9164994, lire en ligne)
  11. ↑ (en) Paul Kurtz, Exuberant Skepticism, Prometheus Books, , 230 p. (ISBN 978-1-61592-970-2, lire en ligne)
  12. ↑ (en) « CSICOP and the Skeptics: An Overview by George P. Hansen », www.tricksterbook.com (consulté le )

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