In Praise of Failure

In this book, Costica Bradatan challenges the culture obsessed with success by advocating for the importance of failure.

He uses the stories of four historical figures—Simone Weil, Mahatma Gandhi, E.M.

Cioran, and Yukio Mishima—to illustrate how engaging with our limitations can be therapeutic and transformative.

Bradatan argues that failure can cure us of arrogance and self-deception, leading to humbler, more attentive, and better-lived lives.

The book blends argument, storytelling, scholarship, and spiritual quest to make a compelling case for the value of failure in human existence.