Founded in Barcelona in 1977 by Victor Landman, GEDISA specializes in publishing books of essays and thought: maybe open books contemporary knowledge and those voices have to make a reflection on our times, works that move from the work of pulse to the background work, from the "best-seller" to "long-seller".

With an extensive backlist that includes both trials and specialized textbooks for university teaching and research and outreach and self-help books, technical books and texts aimed at a broader audience, every field of knowledge finds its place in our catalog: Psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, art, science, math, education ...

The fundamental objective that encourages us is that whoever reader or reader who wanted to "know" you can find in our books and authors, always with a guarantee of reliability and quality, depth and current simultaneously.

Gedisa has offices in Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, reaching its distribution throughout Latin America. It currently has a fund of almost a thousand titles and occurs at a rate of about 70 new year and about 100 reprints.

Coinciding with the first post-Franco elections, Editorial early GEDISA were well defined with the name of one of his collections, FREEDOM AND CHANGE, which began with novel approaches in education, sociology, sexology or critique of consumerism.
Both his undergraduate general education program and reflected the desire that society had to see first hand the new cultural currents of other countries.
Therefore, GEDISA opened its catalog with works translated from French, English, Italian and German, while also including important studies of Spanish and Latin American authors.

Beside some great successes as THE HAPPY CHILD Corkille Briggs UNDERTAKING A THESIS Umberto Eco or Infatuation and Love by Francesco Alberoni, GEDISA and published in the early days of his career many authors who were then "secret orders" and poorly understood and are now leading figures. Names like George Steiner, Gianni Vattimo, Lyotard Jean-Françouis, Roger Chartier, Clifford Geertz, Allan Bloom, Norberto Bobbio or Hannah Arendt, among others GEDISA background are now required concerning the academic world and the culture at large.