From One Crisis to the Next

Costică Brădăţan is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, most recently, In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (2023), and writes regularly for such publications as the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Commonweal, Aeon, and the like.Camil Ungureanu is Serra Húnter Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Coordinator of MA in PoliticalPhilosophy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Hehas published extensively in the fields of critical theory, contemporary political thought, art and political imagination,populism, and religious studies.

• Editor’s Note. Introduction: Crisis as a Way of Life Part I: On Crisis – Broadly Speaking 1. The Humanism Crisis 2. Reconsidering the Context of Crisis: A Response from Early Chinese Thought 3. Regimes of Crisis Part II: Philosophy of/in Crisis 4. Philosophy at a Crossroads 5. Substance Abuse: Addiction and Crisis in Wittgenstein 6. The Culturally Educated Spirit and its Fate: Hegel, Diderot, and the Futures of Crises Part III: The Art of Crisis 7. Apocalypse: Existential Crisis and/or Catharsis 8. Cristi Puiu and Vladimir Solovyov: Evil, Death, and Crisis in Malmkrog 9. “Something Completely Mad and Extraordinary”: Crisis, Love, and Artistic Creation in Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre? Part IV: Crisis Politics. Three Case Studies 10. Kuwait’s Modernity in Crisis: Phantasms and Memory 11. Harnessing Ignorance?: Resources for Action and Resistance During the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Nigeria 12. The Crisis of No Crisis