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Costica Bradatan is Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University and Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author, most recently, of Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers. Bradatan also writes book reviews, essays, and op-ed pieces for the New York Times, Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, and Literary Review.
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