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Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing | Psyche Ideas

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is professor of humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, and an honorary research professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is the author of, most recently, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023). He is the religion/philosophy editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books, and the founding editor of two book series: Philosophical Filmmakers at Bloomsbury, and No Limits at Columbia University Press. is professor of humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, and an honorary research professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is the author of, most recently, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023). He is the religion/philosophy editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books, and the founding editor of two book series: Philosophical Filmmakers at Bloomsbury, and No Limits at Columbia University Press. Except for a painful one-year stint as a high-school teacher of philosophy

Except for a painful one-year stint as a high-school teacher of philosophy in his native Romania, Emil Cioran never had a real job. ‘I avoided at any price the humiliation of a career,’ he observed toward the end of his life. ‘I preferred to live like a parasite [rather] than to destroy myself by keeping a job.’ When he chose to move to France, in 1937, it mattered to him that Paris was ‘the only city in the world where you could be poor without being ashamed of it, without complications, without dramas.’ Emil Cioran photographed in France, 1957. Courtesy Wikipedia Like his ancient…

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