Costică Brădăţan 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, Australia. He has also held faculty appointments at Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Miami University, and Arizona State University, as well as at universities in
Europe, South America, and Asia.
He is the author or editor
(co-editor) of several books, among which Dying for Ideas.
The dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, paperback, 2018) and In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press, 2023). He is currently at work on two new
book projects: Against Conformity (under contract with Princeton
University Press) and The Prince and the Hermit (under contract with
Penguin).
Brădăţan also writes essays, book reviews,
and op-eds for such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe
& Mail, Boston Review, Aeon, Literary Review, Times Literary Supplement,
Commonweal Magazine, and Times Higher Education. His
work has been translated into several languages, including German, Italian, Hungarian, Turkish, Chinese, Vietnamese,
Burmese, and Farsi.
He is the curator of two book series: Philosophical Filmmakers
(Bloomsbury) and No Limits (Columbia University Press).
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Honors College, Texas Tech University, MS 41017, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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