In Praise of Failure

Costica Bradatan

eBook - 2023

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Charming and brilliant." —Times Literary Supplement"Provocative, stimulating, wise―the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read."―Tom Holland"Bradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit, his every thought and sentence slipping smoothly into the next...I was absorbed by Bradatan's book even—or especially—when I felt uncomfortable with its implications." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times"Bradatan wears his erudition lightly. He is a pleasure to read, and his prose conveys a happy resilience in the face of life's inevitable contradictions. His lessons in humility remind us that the pursuit of success is often motivated by... the dread of failure—and that our attempts to create things are often driven by an avoidance of our mortality." —Michael S. Roth, Washington Post"Bradatan writes with the same daring, the same... more