Costica Bradatan

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Costica Bradatan |Charles Foster |Noga Arikha |Robert Adès

In The Faith of the Faithless (2012), Simon Critchley observed that “those who cannot believe still require religious truth and a framework of ritual in which they can believe”. Indeed, one of the broader points he made in that book was that philosophers, even if personally faithless – or, rather, because faithless – have much to gain, philosophically, from engaging in matters of faith. Philosophy should always maintain a respectful dialogue with religion rather than ignore or despise it.

Oct 30, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Costica Bradatan

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Feb 8, 2024 | nybooks.com | Costica Bradatan |Geoff Dyer |Avril Horner |Eleanor Janega

At Ease Amid the Ruins Costica Bradatan and Geoff Dyer explore the virtues of failure and humility in the face of the next-to-nothingness of human existence.

Dec 30, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Costica Bradatan

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Dec 30, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Costica Bradatan

Have you noticed how, as soon as we make our ritual New Year Resolutions, we start bragging about how grandly we are going to fail to keep them? And, indeed, the accompanying feeling of relief, even secret pleasure, that we experience as we do so? In the delicious confusion of the festive season, when the old year is about to die and the new one is yet to be born, with cheek, glee, and self-irony aplenty, we let everything go. “I want to drink less or quit smoking this year. But who are we kidding?