Honorary Professor
Overview
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).
Publications
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Journal Article: Smell and Sound of a Philosophy
Bradatan, Costica (2023). Smell and Sound of a Philosophy. Times Literary Supplement.
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Journal Article: College for clowns: the nomadic survivor of an ugly century
Bradatan, Costica (2023). College for clowns: the nomadic survivor of an ugly century. TLS: the Times Literary Supplement.
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Journal Article: Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing
Bradatan, Costica (2023). Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing. Psyche.
Supervision
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Dancing on the Tightrope of Existence: Deconstructing Black Consciousness
(2017) Doctor Philosophy
Publications
Book
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In praise of failure. Four lessons in humility
Bradatan, Costica (2023). In praise of failure. Four lessons in humility. Cambridge, MA, United States: Harvard University Press.
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The God beat: what journalism says about faith and why it matters
Costica Bradatan and Ed Simon eds. (2021). The God beat: what journalism says about faith and why it matters. Minneapolis, MN, United States: Broadleaf Books.
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Costica Bradatan and Camil Ungureanu eds. (2015). Cinema and sacrifice. London, United Kingdom: Routledege.
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Dying for ideas: the dangerous lives of the philosophers
Bradatan, Costica (2015). Dying for ideas: the dangerous lives of the philosophers. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
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Philosophy as a literary art: making things up
Costica Bradatan ed. (2014). Philosophy as a literary art: making things up. London: Routledge.
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Religion in contemporary European cinema: the postsecular constellation
Costica Bradatan and Camil Ungureanu eds. (2014). Religion in contemporary European cinema: the postsecular constellation. New York, United States: Routledge.
Book Chapter
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Bradatan, Costica and Simon, Ed (2021). Introduction. In The God Beat (pp. 1-7) Minneapolis, MN United States: Broadleaf Books.
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Costica Bradatan (2020). Taming Time. The Time is Now. (pp. 7-14) edited by Mihaela Gligor. Bucharest, Romania: Zeta Books.
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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.
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Entangled in God’s story: a reading of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 'Blind Chance'
Bradatan, Costica (2014). Entangled in God’s story: a reading of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 'Blind Chance'. Religion in contemporary European cinema: the postsecular constellation. (pp. 74-90) edited by Costica Bradatan and Camil Ungureanu. New York, United States: Routledge.
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Introduction: dealing (visibly) in "things not seen"
Bradatan, Costica (2014). Introduction: dealing (visibly) in "things not seen". Religion in contemporary European cinema: the postsecular constellation. (pp. 1-9) edited by Costica Bradatan and Camil Ungureanu. New York, United States: Routledege.
Journal Article
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Smell and Sound of a Philosophy
Bradatan, Costica (2023). Smell and Sound of a Philosophy. Times Literary Supplement.
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College for clowns: the nomadic survivor of an ugly century
Bradatan, Costica (2023). College for clowns: the nomadic survivor of an ugly century. TLS: the Times Literary Supplement.
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Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing
Bradatan, Costica (2023). Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing. Psyche.
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Inner Space Oddity: Reporting from the front lines of a writer’s own ‘anomalies’
Bradatan, Costica (2023). Inner Space Oddity: Reporting from the front lines of a writer’s own ‘anomalies’. Times Literary Supplement, 6256.
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Romania's Kafka: the ten-year journal of a young writer facing death
Bradatan, Costica (2023). Romania's Kafka: the ten-year journal of a young writer facing death. Times Literary Supplement.
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How to swim against the stream. On Diogenes
Bradatan, Costica (2023). How to swim against the stream. On Diogenes. Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Censor's sensibility: a gravely funny bowdlerizer’s tale
Bradatan, Costica (2022). Censor's sensibility: a gravely funny bowdlerizer’s tale. Times Literary Supplement, 20-20.
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Bradatan, Costica (2022). Onward Christian emperors. Literary Review.
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Bradatan, Costica (2022). Two sides of dignity. Commonweal Magazine.
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The only way to stand it: ‘Here in our Auschwitz and other stories’
Bradatan, Costica (2022). The only way to stand it: ‘Here in our Auschwitz and other stories’. Commonweal, 50-52.
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Faust in Romania: the drama of a country that can't find its soul
Bradatan, Costica (2022). Faust in Romania: the drama of a country that can't find its soul. Times Literary Supplement, 6201.
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Bishop, empiricist, and weirdo
Bradatam, Costica (2021). Bishop, empiricist, and weirdo. Times Literary Supplement , 6182.
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Bradatan, Costica (2021, 07 09). Utopian nightmares TLS: the Times literary supplement
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Bradatan, Costica (2021). A Happy Contrarian. Commonweal Magazine.
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The plot and the argument: philosophy as a narrative affair
Bradatan, Costica (2020). The plot and the argument: philosophy as a narrative affair. Los Angeles Review of Books.
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The fox and the hedgehog. Polymathy's past and future
Bradatan, Costica (2020). The fox and the hedgehog. Polymathy's past and future. Times Literary Supplement.
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Bradatan, Costica (2020). “Sailing without Ballast”. Commonweal Magazine, 54-56.
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Bradatan, Costica (2020). A Soft Spot for Atheism. Commonweal Magazine (June 2020), 52-54.
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Always narrating: the making and unmaking of Umberto Eco
Bradatan, Costica (2020). Always narrating: the making and unmaking of Umberto Eco. Los Angeles Review of Books.
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A show of faith in the unbelievers
Bradatan, Costica (2020, 01 24). A show of faith in the unbelievers The Australian
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Tales of an existential croucher
Bradatan, Costica (2019, 11 22). Tales of an existential croucher Times Literary Supplement 36-36.
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Bradatan, Costica (2019). "It Began in a Manger". Literary Review.
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Bradatan, Costica (2018). The gifts of humility. Los Angeles Review of Books
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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.
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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.
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Bradatan, Costica (2018). Are We Doomed to Fail?. iai news (62)
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Philosophy Needs a New Definition
Bradatan, Costica (2017). Philosophy Needs a New Definition. Los Angeles Review of Books
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Bradatan, Costica (2017). Why We Fail and How. Los Angeles Review of Books
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Philosophy Has a Lot to Learn from Film
Bradatan, Costica (2017). Philosophy Has a Lot to Learn from Film. Aeon
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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
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Bradatan, Costica (2016). Vitriol in their hearts. The Times Literary Supplement (5924), 16-16.
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Why do anything? A meditation on procrastination
Bradatan, Costica (2016). Why do anything? A meditation on procrastination. The New York Times
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Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility
Bradatan, Costica (2016). Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility. Aeon
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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
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Body of work: the dying philosopher
Bradatan, Costica (2015). Body of work: the dying philosopher. Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Bradatan, Costica and Zaretsky, Robert (2015). The Idea of Europe. Los Angeles Review of Books
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Bradatan, Costica (2015). Change Comes From the Margins. The New York Times.
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Why people are willing to die for an idea
Bradatan, Costica (2015). Why people are willing to die for an idea. The Washington Post.
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Bradatan, Costica (2015). Philosophy as a Bloody Affair. The European Magazine
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Bradatan, Costica (2015). In Defense of Margins. Los Angeles Review of Books
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Bradatan, Costica (2015). Dada life. The Times Literary Supplement (5851), 21-22.
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“The joy of destruction is also the joy of creation"
Bradatan, Costica (2014). “The joy of destruction is also the joy of creation". Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 19 (4), 1-5. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2014.984417
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“We will die and will be free”: a gnostic reading of 'The Double Life of Véronique'
Bradatan, Costica (2014). “We will die and will be free”: a gnostic reading of 'The Double Life of Véronique'. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 19 (4), 127-139. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2014.984448
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Bradatan, Costica (2014). The two abysses of the soul. Los Angeles Review of Books
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Norman Manea survived the Nazis and the communists and lived to write about it
Bradatan, Costica (2014). Norman Manea survived the Nazis and the communists and lived to write about it. The Daily Beast.
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Herta Mueller's Language of Resistance
Bradatan, Costica (2014). Herta Mueller's Language of Resistance. Boston Review.
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Cecilia Stefanescu: Sun Alley, translated by Alexandra Coliban and Andreea Höfer
Bradatan, Costica (2014). Cecilia Stefanescu: Sun Alley, translated by Alexandra Coliban and Andreea Höfer. The Times Literary Supplement, 1 (5787), 21-21.
Edited Outputs
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Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities. Special issue. Cinema and sacrifice: new variations on an old theme. (2014). 19 (4)
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The European legacy. Special issue: philosophy as literature
The European legacy. Special issue: philosophy as literature. (2009). 14 (5)
Other Outputs
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Bradatan, Costica (2023, 01 27). A Socrates gone insane
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How sacrifice lost its significance
Bradatan, Costica (2023, 01 03). How sacrifice lost its significance UnHerd
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Bradatan, Costica (2023, 01 02). Why I Came to America to Fail The New York Times
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Bradatan, Costica (2023, 01 01). Christ at the Assembly Line Commonweal
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Bradatan, Costica (2022, 12 21). Power has poisoned academia UnHerd
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Bradatan, Costica (2022, 12 13). The herd in the head Aeon
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What’s behind a successful academic hoax?
Bradatan, Costica (2022, 08 25). What’s behind a successful academic hoax? The New Statesman
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Bradatan, Costica (2022, 03 14). Why Russian leaders kill UnHerd
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How Thomas Mann escaped to America and waged a moral battler against Hitler
Bradatan, Costica (2022, 02 18). How Thomas Mann escaped to America and waged a moral battler against Hitler The Washington Post
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Privilege is the new original sin
Bradatan, Costica (2021, 11 17). Privilege is the new original sin UnHerd
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Inescapable influence: "how the Christian revolution remade the world"
Bradatan, Costica (2019, 09 30). Inescapable influence: "how the Christian revolution remade the world" Commonweal
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Bradatan, Costica (2019, 07 05). "Democracy is for the Gods" The New York Times
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How different really are atheists and believers?
Bradatan, Costica (2018, 11 16). How different really are atheists and believers? The Washington Post B6-B6.
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Bradatan, Costica (2017, 03 27). Our Delight in Destruction The New York Times
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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
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Bradatan, Costica (2014, 08 17). The wisdom of the exile SR12-SR12.
PhD and MPhil Supervision
Completed Supervision
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Dancing on the Tightrope of Existence: Deconstructing Black Consciousness
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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