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To begin with its name, Elčuthera is clearly identified, as
eleuthera is a Greek word that means «free». But it is also the
name that was given to a small island in the Bahamas by the Eleutherians,
a heretical British sect, who in the 17th century had to flee
from Europe due to religious persecutions, and established the
first independent republic in the New World, thus creating a community
of «free and equal men and women». A realised utopy – just similar
in its spirit and intention to Elčuthera, our publishing company.
Therefore, we publish books for a libertarian culture. A living
culture, rich in history and potential, the ferment as well as
the product of the most advanced critics to the hyerarchical principle,
to the domination as a way of shaping the society, of living and
thinking oneself and the others. While the goal of creating a
common background for the many voices of libertarian thinking
is undoubtedly an ambitious goal, there is no ambition in our
dimensions and plans for a publishing enterprise – as we are still
convinced that «small is beautiful» and the concept of limit still
mantains a positive meaning. And, «small as it is», Elčuthera
works in a way to make out of every new published book a tessera
of a mosaic we are going to develop – a mosaic that will remain
unfinished, as open as it is the mosaic of freedom.
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