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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 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.
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  • 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
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    (2010). On the Meaning of Life in the age of the Most Meaningless Death. Angelaki: Vol. 15, The Unbearable Charm of Fragility Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe, pp. 67-85
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    The starting point of my essay is a paradoxical claim that the Spanish philosopher, poet and novelist Miguel de Unamuno makes—in his essay “Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho” —that Don Quixote, Cervantes’ character, is more real and authentic than Miguel de Cervantes himself. Then, after discussing this claim and analyzing the implications of an ingenious literary device that Unamuno employed in his fiction “Niebla” , I will sketch some of the possible philosophical consequences that Unamuno’s litera…Read more
  • “the Swearword, The Telegram, The Epitaph” (review)
    Janus Head 9 (1). 2006.
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    Review at Ingrid D. Rowland, Giordano Bruno. Philosopher/Heretic
    International Journal on Humanistic Ideology 3 (1): 195-196. 2010.
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    Branka Arsić, The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley (review)
    Philosophy in Review 24 (4): 237-239. 2004.
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    :Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. From Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc to Pasolini's Mamma Roma to Tarkovsky's Sacrifice to many of Ozu's films to Kar Wai Wong's In the Mood for Love or to Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves and Bruno Dumont's La Vie de Jésus, to give just a few examples, sacrifice has nourished, informed and shaped filmmaking. Sacrifice is a fundamental human …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
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    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