A lecture „Social predestination of failure“
  • 07.03.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

A lecture „Social predestination of failure“

Yesterday, March 6th, Costica Bradatan held a lecture on Social predestination of failure at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. With this lecture he showed that the way we think about success and failure today, at least in the West, is a late echo of the Calvinist doctrine of predestination. Fundamentally, and despite the intervening historical distance, the early Calvinists and we la...

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Academic Ivan Markešić passed away
  • 07.03.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Academic Ivan Markešić passed away

Yesterday, March 6th, after a long and serious illness, at the age of 71, a sociologist, lexicographer and politician, our longtime collaborator on numerous publications – academic Ivan Markešić, passed away. In his scientific work, he mainly dealt with the sociology of religion: religion in contemporary globalization and postmodern processes; religion as a factor of social changes, dialogue, tol...

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„In Praise of Failure“ wins PROSE award
  • 06.03.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

„In Praise of Failure“ wins PROSE award

AAP, i.e. Association of American Publishers, gives recognition every year for a significant contribution to scholarly publishing in 41 categories, and this year in the category of humanities, subcategory philosophy, the PROSE award went to the latest book of our author Costica Bradatan, In Praise of Failure. Four lessons in humility. You can attend the lecture of this great philosopher tonight, ...

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Rhythm&Book vol. 3
  • 22.02.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Rhythm&Book vol. 3

The third season of your favorite cultural event will arrive in March! This year, Rhythm&Book brings many new things: new location, more meetings, more guest appearances by foreign authors, more fun! The first meeting called „Circles of failure with Costica Bradatan“ will be held on March 7 from 7 to 9 PM in the Regular bar (Ilica 65/1, Zagreb), where our author Costica Bradatan will present h...

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Robert Badinter passed away
  • 20.02.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Robert Badinter passed away

Robert Badinter, French lawyer, scientist and politician, honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb and corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, passed away on Friday, February 9, 2024 at the age of 96. Badinter chaired the Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia, which concluded in 1991 that the SFRY was in the process of disintegration, on the...

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Lars Svendsen with Goran Milić
  • 20.02.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Lars Svendsen with Goran Milić

Last night, February 19, in the show What's up North-South, one of Goran Milić's guests was a famous Norwegian philosopher, the author of books translated into 27 languages, including Croatian. The Philosophy of Hope is his eleventh book published by TIM press, and his name is Lars Svendsen! He talked with Goran Milić about the Norwegian mentality, the importance of the word tillit for Norwegian s...

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New title: „The Courage of Nuance“
  • 14.02.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

New title: „The Courage of Nuance“

The long-awaited and very current book The Courage of Nuance by French journalist Jean Birnbaum translated by Dubravka Celebrini can be found in bookstores, libraries and our webshop from today. The Courage of Nuance is an essay about the current state of the public and public debate, characterized by social networks, Manichean and hardened attitudes, and entrenched, previously unexamined ...

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Stier in Večernji
  • 12.01.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

Stier in Večernji

On December 30, Žarko Ivković's interview with Davor Ivo Stier was published in Večernji list newspaper. They discussed the political situation in 2024, the war in Ukraine, and Stier briefly „drew“ a possible geopolitical picture of the world after all the elections in the „super-election“ year. You can read the complete interview here, and if you happen to be in Vukovar today, at 12:00 in the Vu...

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„In praise of failure“ in „Globus“
  • 10.01.2024.
  • Zagreb, HR

„In praise of failure“ in „Globus“

On December 27, 2023, a review of the book In Praise of Failure. Four lessons in humility was published in Globus. The author of the review, Tanja Tolić, writes that Bradatan analyzes the experiences of poverty and failure of George Orwell, Simone Weil, Charlie Chaplin and E.M. Cioran with abundant references to the failures of other famous people.  You can read the article here.

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New title: „A Philosophy of Hope“
  • 21.12.2023.
  • Zagreb, HR

New title: „A Philosophy of Hope“

The last title of 2023 is published! In A Philosophy of Hope, the internationally recognized philosopher Lars Svendsen takes us on a journey through the history of philosophy in an insightful and humorous way and analyzes what the most prominent thinkers have written about hope. Recent events in Europe prompted the author to reflect on the philosophical aspects of hope as a phenomenon that ...

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