Costica bradatan biography
- Costica Bradatan.
- Costică Brădățan is a Romanian-born American philosopher.
- Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at.
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Costica Bradatan (born 1971) received the Paul Whitfield Corn Fellowship for Distinguished Professors in the Humanities from Texas Tech University in the U.S. and the title of Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland in Australia. He has also taught at Cornell University, the University of Miami, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Notre Dame, as well as at universities in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (2015, 2018) and In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023). He is currently working on two new literary projects: Against Conformity and The Prince and the Hermit. His works have been translated into over 20 languages, including Dutch, Italian, Farsi, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Arabic. He writes literary critiques, essays, and columns for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Aeon, and Commonw Professor Email: Costica.Bradatan@ttu.edu Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He has also held faculty appointments at Cornell University, Miami University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Notre Dame, as well as at universities in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Bradatan is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, among which Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (2015, 2018) and In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (2023). He is currently at work on two new book projects:Against Conformity(Princeton University Press) and The Prince and the Hermit (Penguin). His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, including Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Farsi. Bradatan also writes book reviews, essays, and op-ed pieces for such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Lit Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please SUBSCRIBE NOW You support the idea of a philosophy as a way of life, following a path that comes down to us from the Stoics to Nietzsche, from Ignazio of Loyola to Montaigne; but I could also add a bunch of Eastern thinkers from Laozi to Nagarjuna. Much of contemporary philosophy seems to have lost this dimension, becoming a cold game that only academics can play. Why is that, in your opinion? One of the reasons is that living philosophically is much harder than doing philosophy academically. All you need for
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Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Francesco D’Isa talks with him about the philosophies of life and death.
Costica Bradatan portrait photo by Bram Budel