Challenging the obsession with success, this book delves into the importance of humility when facing life's challenges. Through the lives of four historical figures who embraced failure, the author illustrates how confronting our limitations can lead to personal transformation. Blending storytelling with philosophical insights, Costica Bradatan argues that recognizing failure's role in our lives is crucial for genuine growth and meaning. The narrative invites readers to reconsider their definitions of success and the value of vulnerability in a competitive world.
Współczesny świat, zdominowany przez dążenie do sukcesu, nie sprzyja porażkom, które często wywołują dyskomfort i rozczarowanie. Unikamy ich za wszelką cenę, a gdy już nas spotykają, staramy się szybko zapomnieć lub przekuć w sukces. W pogoni za doskonałością zapominamy, że porażka uczy pokory, co z kolei pomaga lepiej radzić sobie z życiowymi wyzwaniami. Costica Bradatan, uznany filozof, w swojej pracy opisuje losy czterech historycznych postaci, które prowadziły znaczące życie, a jednocześnie doskonaliły sztukę porażki. Udowadnia, że stawienie czoła własnym ograniczeniom to nie tylko droga do uzdrowienia, ale także do wewnętrznej przemiany. Podróż w poszukiwaniu samego siebie jest najtrudniejsza, ale z porażką jako przewodnikiem mamy szansę na sukces. Jak głoszą lekarze, jad węża może być lekarstwem – gorzki lek najlepiej leczy. Bradatan pisze z elegancją i humorem, a jego refleksje płynnie przechodzą jedna w drugą. Książka wciąga, a jej niewygodne wnioski skłaniają do głębszej refleksji. Costica Bradatan jest profesorem filozofii, autorem książek przetłumaczonych na wiele języków oraz felietonistą dla czołowych gazet.
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.
The second James Loeb Biennial Conference focused on his multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The resulting essays also reflect on Loeb's contemporary significance, as his collections continue to be curated and studied in today's rapidly evolving arts environment.
In the wake of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attacks we, as an increasingly secular nation, were reminded that religion is, for good and bad, still significant in the modern world. Alongside this new awareness, religion reporters adopted the tools of so-called New Journalists, reporters of the 1960s and '70s like Truman Capote and Joan Didion who inserted themselves into the stories they covered while borrowing the narrative tool kit of fiction to avail themselves of a deeper truth. At the turn of the millennium, this personal, subjective, voice-driven New Religion Journalism was employed by young writers, willing to scrutinize questions of faith and doubt while taking God-talk seriously. Articles emerged from such journalists as Kelly Baker, Anne Neuman, Patrick Blanchfield, Jeff Kripal, and Meghan O'Gieblyn, characterized by their brash, innovative, daring, and stylistically sophisticated writing and an unprecedented willingness to detail their own interaction with faith (or their lack thereof). The God Beat brings together some of the finest and most representative samples of this emerging genre. By curating and presenting them as part of a meaningful trend, this compellingly edited collection helps us understand how we talk about God in public spaces--and why it matters--in a whole new way.
