Overview
Background
I am 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. I have 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 several universities in Europe and Asia.
I work on topics in the history of Western philosophy, Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of literature and of film. I am the author or editor (co-editor) of several books, among which Dying for Ideas. The dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2015). I am currently pursuing two new book projects: In Praise of Failure. A Manifesto for Humility (contracted with Harvard University Press) and Against Conformity. Reinventing the Lost Art of Cynicism (contracted with Princetom University Press)
I also write essays, book reviews, and op-eds for such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe & Mail, The Australian, The New Statesman, Dissent, Times Literary Supplement, and Times Higher Education, among other places. My work has been translated into a number of languages, including German, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Farsi.
I am the religion/comparative studies editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as the fouding editor and curator of two book series: "Philosophical Filmmakers" (Bloomsbury) and "No Limits" (Columbia University Press).
Availability
- Honorary Professor Costica Bradatan is:
- Available for supervision
Works
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2019
Other Outputs
Inescapable influence: "how the Christian revolution remade the world"
Bradatan, Costica (2019, 09 30). Inescapable influence: "how the Christian revolution remade the world" Commonweal
2019
Journal Article
"It Began in a Manger"
Bradatan, Costica (2019). "It Began in a Manger". Literary Review.
2019
Other Outputs
"Democracy is for the Gods"
Bradatan, Costica (2019, 07 05). "Democracy is for the Gods" The New York Times
2018
Journal Article
The gifts of humility
Bradatan, Costica (2018). The gifts of humility. Los Angeles Review of Books
2018
Other Outputs
How different really are atheists and believers?
Bradatan, Costica (2018, 11 16). How different really are atheists and believers? The Washington Post B6-B6.
2018
Journal Article
The life and opinions of Zacharias Lichter
Bradatan, Costica (2018). The life and opinions of Zacharias Lichter. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement (6017), 33-33.
2018
Journal Article
Muted Witnesses: The Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian (Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth)
Bradatan, Costica (2018). Muted Witnesses: The Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian (Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth). Literary Review.
2018
Journal Article
Are We Doomed to Fail?
Bradatan, Costica (2018). Are We Doomed to Fail?. iai news (62).
2018
Book Chapter
Notes on divine homelessness: a reading of Lars von Trier's Dogville
Bradatan, Costica (2018). Notes on divine homelessness: a reading of Lars von Trier's Dogville. Immanent frames: postsecular cinema between Malick and von Trier. (pp. 129-147) edited by John Caruana and Mark Cauchi. Albany, NY, United States: SUNY Press.
2017
Journal Article
Philosophy Needs a New Definition
Bradatan, Costica (2017). Philosophy Needs a New Definition. Los Angeles Review of Books
2017
Journal Article
Why We Fail and How
Bradatan, Costica (2017). Why We Fail and How. Los Angeles Review of Books
2017
Journal Article
Philosophy Has a Lot to Learn from Film
Bradatan, Costica (2017). Philosophy Has a Lot to Learn from Film. Aeon
2017
Other Outputs
Our Delight in Destruction
Bradatan, Costica (2017, 03 27). Our Delight in Destruction The New York Times
2016
Journal Article
The philosopher of failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair
Bradatan, Costica (2016). The philosopher of failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair. Los Angeles Review of Books
2016
Journal Article
Vitriol in their hearts
Bradatan, Costica (2016). Vitriol in their hearts. The Times Literary Supplement (5924), 16-16.
2016
Journal Article
Why do anything? A meditation on procrastination
Bradatan, Costica (2016). Why do anything? A meditation on procrastination. The New York Times
2016
Journal Article
Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility
Bradatan, Costica (2016). Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility. Aeon
2016
Journal Article
A Continental Mind. Review of 'The Idea of Europe' by George Steiner
Bradatan, Costica (2016). A Continental Mind. Review of 'The Idea of Europe' by George Steiner. Spiked Review
2016
Other Outputs
Existentialism and Sartre captured spirit of the times. Review of 'The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual' by Patrick Baert
Bradatan, Costica (2016, 02 20). Existentialism and Sartre captured spirit of the times. Review of 'The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual' by Patrick Baert The Australian
2015
Journal Article
Body of work: the dying philosopher
Bradatan, Costica (2015). Body of work: the dying philosopher. Los Angeles Review of Books.
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Dancing on the Tightrope of Existence: Deconstructing Black Consciousness
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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