In Praise of Failure - Four Lessons in Humility

Informationen zum Autor Costica Bradatan is author of Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers and coeditor of The God Beat . A contributor to the New York Times , Aeon , Commonweal , the Times Literary Supplement , and the New Statesman and Religion/Philosophy Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books , he is Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University and Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland in Australia. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Klappentext Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their years. From Simone Weil to Seneca and Gandhi, the greatest of us made meaningful lives by grasping the epiphanies of failure. Zusammenfassung Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their years. From Simone Weil to Seneca and Gandhi, the greatest of us made meaningful lives by grasping the epiphanies of failure.

Product details

• Authors: Costica Bradatan, Bradatan Costica
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2024
• EAN: 9780674297203
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29720-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, RELIGION / Christianity / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Christianity, Ethics & moral philosophy, Popular philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Phenomenology and Existentialism