Assistant Professor
Costica Bradatan received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Durham (UK) in 2004. He received his BA in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1997 and his MA in 1998.
Prior to coming to Texas Tech Costica Bradatan taught philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at Cornell University (The Knight Institute for Writing) and Miami University (The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies), where he held post-doctoral positions. He also taught at several European universities: University of Durham (England), European College of Liberal Arts Berlin (Germany), Central European University (Hungary) and University of Bucharest (Romania).
Bradatan’s research interests include Continental philosophy, history of modern philosophy, East-European philosophy, philosophy and literature, philosophy of religion and of the arts. His work has appeared in English, Romanian, Dutch and Polish. Bradatan’s most recent book The Other Bishop Berkeley. An Exercise in Reenchantment was published with Fordham University Press in 2006. He is also the author of two other books (in Romanian): An Introduction to the History of Romanian Philosophy in the 20th Century (Bucharest, 2000) and Isaac Bernstein’s Diary (Bucharest, 2001; New York/Nijmegen, 2002), as well as of several dozens of scholarly papers, essays, encyclopedia entries, book translations and book reviews. Currently he is writing a book on “philosophy as an art of dying.”
Costica Bradatan is the Senior Editor of Janus Head. A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts (www.janushead.org) and Online Editor for H-Ideas, the intellectual history section of the “H-Net – Humanities and Social Science Online” (www.h-net.org).