Books
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Authored
The Prince and the Hermit (under contract with Penguin, UK & WW Norton, USA)
Against Conformity (under contract with Princeton University Press)
In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), ISBN: 978-0674970472 (Hardcover, 2023), 288 pp.
Translations: Arabic, Turkish, Italian, Romanian, Croatian, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese, etc.
Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous
Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury,
London & New York), ISBN:
978-1472525512 (Hardcover, 2015) & 978-1472529718 (Paperback, 2018)
Translations: Chinese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Kurdish, Farsi, Croatian, Portuguese, Hungarian (also as Audiobook), Spanish, Russian, Arabic, etc.
The Other Bishop Berkeley. An
Exercise in Reenchantment (Fordham University Press, New York),
2006, xii+227 pp, ISBN: 082-322-693-X
Translations: Portuguese
Isaac Bernstein's Diary [creative non-fiction] (Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest), 2001, 186 pp., ISBN 973-569-484-0 [in Romanian].
An Introduction to the History of Romanian Philosophy in the 20-th
Century(Romanian Cultural Foundation
Publishing House, Bucharest) 2000, 264 pp., ISBN 973-577-293-0 [in Romanian].
Edited
(with Camil Ungureanu), In Praise of Crises (Routledge,
London and New York, 2025) [in progress]
(with Ed Simon), The God Beat (Broadleaf Books, Minneapolis, 2021), 225 pp, ISBN: 9781506465777 (Hardcover, 2021)
(with Camil Ungureanu), Sacrifice and Cinema (Routledge, London & New York), 176 pp, ISBN: 978-1-13-893682-9 (Hardcover, 2015) & 978-1-13-819688-9 (Paperback, 2017)
(with Camil Ungureanu), Religion in Contemporary European Cinema. The Postsecular Constellation (Routledge, London & New York), 222 pp, ISBN: 978-0-415-73376-2 (Hardcover, 2014) & 978-1-138-06308-2 (Paperback, 2017)
Philosophy as a Literary Art. Making Things Up (Routledge, London & New York), 128 pp, ISBN: 978-1-13-879244-9 (Hardcover, 2015) & 978-1-13-829804-0 (Paperback, 2017)
Philosophy, Society and the
Cunning of History in Eastern Europe (Routledge, London & New York), 232 pp, ISBN: 978-0-415-69919-8
(Hardcover, 2012) & 978-1-138-11847-8
(Paperback, 2017)
(with Serguei Alex. Oushakine), In Marx’s Shadow. Knowledge,
Power and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia, Lexington Books,
Lanham (MD), 2010, ISBN: 978-0-7391-3624-9
Translated
Robert McElroy, Morality and American Foreign Policy. The Role of Ethics in International Affairs, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998, 228 pp. [from English into Romanian].
John H. Hallowell, The Moral Foundation of Democracy, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 1997, 120 pp. [from English into Romanian].