In Praise of Failure

Four Lessons in Humility
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-674-29720-3
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradatan, Costica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Existenzphilosophie, Lebensphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Bradatan, Costica
Costica Bradatan is author of <i>Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers</i> and coeditor of <i>The God Beat</i>. A contributor to the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Aeon</i>, <i>Commonweal</i>, the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, and the <i>New Statesman</i> and Religion/Philosophy Editor for the <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>, 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.