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In Praise of Failure - Four Lessons in Humility (Hardcover)
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In Praise of Failure - Four Lessons in Humility (Hardcover)
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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.
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