Costica Bradatan

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 Commonweal. He is the editor for the topics of philosophy and religion at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the editor and founder of two book series: Philosophical Filmmakers (Bloomsbury) and No Limits (Columbia University Press).