Costica Bradatan was born in Dragoiesti, studied at the University of Bucharest and received his PhD from the University of Durham (England) in 2004. He currently teaches at Texas Tech University (USA) and is an honorary professor at the University of Queensland ( Australia). He writes for publications such as the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement and The New Statesman, and is the commissioning editor of Religion and Comparative Studies at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of a dozen books on the history of philosophy, thought in general (In Marx's Shadow, 2010, Philosophy As a Literary Art, 2015) and cinema (Religion in Contemporary European Cinema, 2014). His most recent titles are In Praise of Failure and Against Conformity. Dying for Ideas (2015) is his first book translated into Spanish.