Costica Bradatan is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He has also held faculty appointments at Cornell University, Miami University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Notre Dame, as well as at universities in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Bradatan is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, among which Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (2015) and In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (2023). He is currently at work on two new book projects:The Herd in Our Head (Princeton University Press) and The Prince and the Hermit (Penguin UK/WW Norton). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Bradatan also writes book reviews, essays, and op-ed pieces for such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, and Commonweal. He is the Philosophy/Religion Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the founding editor of two book series: “Philosophical Filmmakers” (Bloomsbury) and “No Limits” (Columbia University Press). 

 

 

 

Areas of Expertise

 

Religion and Philosophy