Costica Bradatan

Professor of Humanities, Texas Tech University / University of Queensland

Costica Bradatan is professor of humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, and an honorary research professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is the author of, most recently, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023). Bradatan is the philosophy/religion editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and the founding editor and curator of two book series: Philosophical Filmmakers (Bloomsbury) and No Limits (Columbia University Press).

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A man sits alone while a long queue of people waits near the Louvre’s glass pyramid entrance in Paris. The photo is black and white.

essayHistory of ideas

The herd in the head

It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a crowd. That is why we need contrarians

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Black and white photo of a close-up scene featuring a man and a woman in intense emotional expressions facing each other.

ideaFilm and visual culture

Philosophy has a lot to learn from film

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Sepia photo of a deflated blimp on the ground surrounded by people. The blimp’s tail number “ZL-7” is visible.

ideaEthics

Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility

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