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    Dying for ideas: the dangerous lives of the philosophers
    Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2015.
    One of the greatest merits of Costica Bradatan's book is that it explores a cluster of topics that represent the untold, the unuttered, almost the unutterable in contemporary philosophy: death, dying, sacrifice and self-sacrifice. Ours is a culture of 'happy endings' and, in this respect, most philosophers of today are the spokespersons of their time. Bradatan is a dissenter. His book approaches death head-on. Indeed, what makes this project fascinating is the fact that, while the book purports …Read more
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    Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe charts the intellectual landscape of twentieth century East-Central Europe under the unifying theme of 'precariousness' as a mode of historical existence. Caught between empires, often marked by catastrophic historic events and grand political failures, the countries of East-Central Europe have for a long time developed a certain intellectual self-representation, a culture that not only helps them make some sense of such misfortune…Read more
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    In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility
    Harvard University Press. 2023.
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    The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is itself a form of religious life. A sense of complex, subterraneous interaction between religious, heterodox, secular and atheistic experiences has thus emerged, which makes the phenomenon all the more fasc…Read more
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    Interview: Costica Bradatan
    with Francesco D’Isa
    Philosophy Now 134 40-41. 2019.
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    A filosofia como palimpsesto: conhecimento arquetípico em Siris
    Revista Litterarius 3 (13): 01-20. 2014.
    Tradução para o português do capítulo 'Philosophy as Palimpsest: Archetypal Knowledge in Siris', retirado de: The Other Bishop Berkeley: An Exercise in Reenchantment. Fordham University Press, New York, 2006, p. 40-56,
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    Berkeley and Liber Mundi
    Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 3 (1). 1999.
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    :This article has a dual purpose. On the one hand, I propose a Gnostic reading of Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Double Life of Véronique. In this interpretation, the figure of the puppeteer, who is eventually revealed to be the maker of the film's story, stands for the Gnostic demiurge. He creates puppet-people only to discard and sacrifice them when he is done performing. On the other hand, I use the film as a springboard for launching a broader philosophical conversation, existentialist in natur…Read more
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    The Book of Dead Philosophers, Simon Critchley
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 41 (3): 325-327. 2010.
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    In this article I consider George Berkeley's Alciphron (1732) from the standpoint of the literary techniques and rhetorical procedures employed, as evidence for placing this composition within the tradition of Christian apologetic rhetoric. The argument develops around three main issues: 1) Berkeley's employment of the traditional rhetorical tool of attacking his opponents using their own weapons; 2) Berkeley's resort to a perennial tradition of pre‐Christian or non‐Christian wisdom, in order to…Read more
  • Philosophy as a Literary Art: Making Things Up (edited book)
    Routledge. 2014.
    Despite philosophers’ growing interest in the relation between philosophy and literature in general, over the last few decades comparatively few studies have been published dealing more narrowly with the literary aspects of philosophical texts. The relationship between philosophy and literature is too often taken to be "literature as philosophy" and very rarely "philosophy as literature." It is the dissatisfaction with this one-sidedness that lies at the heart of the present volume. Philosophy h…Read more
  •  4
    In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia (edited book)
    with Serguei Oushakine
    Lexington Books. 2010.
    The volume draws attention to the unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under the communist regime. It demonstrates how various bodies of knowledge were produced, disseminated and used for a wide variety of purposes: from openly justifying dominant political views to framing oppositional and non-official discourses and practices.
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    Cinema and Sacrifice (edited book)
    with Camil Ungureanu
    Routledge. 2015.
    Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. It is on screen that the new grand narratives are sketched, the new myths rehearsed, and the old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalypses and the birth of new worlds. The co…Read more
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    Philosophy as an Art of Dying
    The European Legacy 12 (5): 589-605. 2007.
    This essay proposes a close look at the tradition of martyr-philosophers in the Western world and advances the claim that the death of these people has a distinct philosophical significance. For various reasons, these philosophers place themselves in limit-situations where they cannot use words anymore to express themselves, but have to turn their own flesh into a radical means of expression. Their dying thus becomes an extension of their work, and the image of their violent deaths comes to be r…Read more
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    Introduction: The Paradoxes of Marginality
    with Aurelian Craiutu
    The European Legacy 17 (6): 721-729. 2012.
    The main focus of this special issue is on marginality, a multifaceted concept that requires a cross-disciplinary approach. The papers selected here deal with marginality in the formation of the epistemic canon (?the mainstream?) and the production of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. By employing the vocabulary of marginality (?marginal,? ?margins,? ?luminal,? ?threshold,? as well as dichotomies such as ?minor-major,? ?center-periphery?), we propose a shift from a discussion of t…Read more
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    Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment (review)
    Philosophy and Literature 27 (2): 471-475. 2003.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 27.2 (2003) 471-475 [Access article in PDF] Cosmopoiesis. The Renaissance Experiment, by Giuseppe Mazzotta; xvi & 106 pp. Toronto Italian Studies/Goggio Publication Series. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2001; $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. There is a sense in which this (most recent) book by Giuseppe Mazzotta might be seen as having been born out of his previous book The New Map of the World: The Poetic Ph…Read more
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    In this article I consider George Berkeley's Alciphron from the standpoint of the literary techniques and rhetorical procedures employed, as evidence for placing this composition within the tradition of Christian apologetic rhetoric. The argument develops around three main issues: 1) Berkeley's employment of the traditional rhetorical tool of attacking his opponents using their own weapons; 2) Berkeley's resort to a perennial tradition of pre‐Christian or non‐Christian wisdom, in order to valida…Read more
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    Geography and Fragility
    Angelaki 15 (3): 1-8. 2010.
    This article introduces the topic and offers an overview of the issue. The author argues that despite the dismantling of the Iron Curtain in 1989 there is still a gap of indifference that separates Western from Eastern Europe when it comes to the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of knowledge. While East European intellectuals most often feed themselves on West European authors, intellectual fashions and cultural products, their Western counterparts pay comparatively little attention to wh…Read more
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    The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano (review)
    The European Legacy 18 (7): 934-935. 2013.
    No abstract
  • Philosophy as palimpsest: For an immemorial wisdom
    Existentia 14 (3-4): 337-344. 2004.
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    Introduction: Unorthodox Remarks on Philosophy as Literature
    The European Legacy 14 (5): 513-518. 2009.
    No abstract
  • Berkeley And Liber Mundi
    Minerva 3. 1999.
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    On Margins, Marginals, and Marginalities: A Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
    with Ramin Jahanbegloo and Aurelian Craiutu
    The European Legacy 17 (6): 731-743. 2012.
    No abstract