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In praise of failure : four lessons in humility / Costica Bradatan.
Van Pelt Library BF575.F14 B73 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brădățan, Costică, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
- Weil, Simone.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Gandhi.
- Cioran, E. M. (Emile M.), 1911-1995.
- Cioran, E. M.
- Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970.
- Mishima, Yukio.
- Failure (Psychology).
- Humility.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. In a Fallen World
- 2. The Ruins of Political Failure
- 3. Winners and Losers
- 4. The Ultimate Failure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780674970472
- 0674970470
- OCLC:
- 1295806391
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