Costică Brădăţan

Costică Brădăţan is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has 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 universities in Europe, South America, and Asia.

Brădăţan is the author or editor (co-editor) of more than a dozen books, among which Dying for Ideas. The dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, paperback, 2018) and In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press, paperback, 2024). 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, USA).

Brădăţan also writes essays, book reviews, and op-eds for such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Aeon, Literary Review, Times Literary Supplement, and Commonweal Magazine. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the philosophy/religion editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and the curator of two book series: Philosophical Filmmakers (Bloomsbury) and No Limits (Columbia University Press).