In Praise of Failure : : Four Lessons in Humility / / Costica Bradatan.
Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility instead.Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet t...
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Bradatan, Costica, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut In Praise of Failure : Four Lessons in Humility / Costica Bradatan. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- PROLOGUE -- 1 IN A FALLEN WORLD -- 2 THE RUINS OF POLITICAL FAILURE -- 3 WINNERS AND LOSERS -- 4 THE ULTIMATE FAILURE -- EPILOGUE -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility instead.Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life’s challenges. Costica Bradatan mounts his case for failure through the stories of four historical figures who led lives of impact and meaning—and assiduously courted failure. Their struggles show that engaging with our limitations can be not just therapeutic but transformative.In Praise of Failure explores several arenas of failure, from the social and political to the spiritual and biological. It begins by examining the defiant choices of the French mystic Simone Weil, who, in sympathy with exploited workers, took up factory jobs that her frail body could not sustain. From there we turn to Mahatma Gandhi, whose punishing quest for purity drove him to ever more extreme acts of self-abnegation. Next we meet the self-styled loser E. M. Cioran, who deliberately turned his back on social acceptability, and Yukio Mishima, who reveled in a distinctly Japanese preoccupation with the noble failure, before looking to Seneca to tease out the ingredients of a good life.Gleefully breaching the boundaries between argument and storytelling, scholarship and spiritual quest, Bradatan concludes that while success can make us shallow, our failures can lead us to humbler, more attentive, and better lived lives. We can do without success, but we are much poorer without the gifts of failure. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh Catharism. EM Cioran. Gnosticism. Jean Améry. Mahatma Gandhi. Osamu Dazai. Saint Augustine. Seneca. Simone Weil. Yukio Mishima. contemplation. detachment. humility. idleness. meaninglessness. nihilism. quest for meaning. quietism. self-overcoming. self-realization. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2023 English 9783111319223 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2023 9783111318646 ZDB-23-DPH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749700 print 9780674970472 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674287358?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674287358 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674287358/original |
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