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Professor Kozlowski Lectures
Professor Kozlowski lectures on various subjects in Philosophy, Theology, and the Humanities. For a list of courses and projects, visit his website at: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/
Episodes
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L&F SU24 Syllabus
Professor Kozlowski goes over the syllabus for the online Summer '24 session of Love and Friendship.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther 2
CW: Suicide and Mental Illness Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther by examining the causes (and the…
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The Sorrows of Young Werther 1
CW: Mental Illness and Suicide Professor Kozlowski discusses the first half of Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther, including character introductions, an…
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Plato's Symposium 4 - Alcibiades
Professor Kozlowski examines the final speech of Plato's Symposium and examines some of the *many* ways it might be interpreted as a contribution to Plato's…
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Plato's Symposium 3 - Socrates
At long last, it's time to hear Socrates' justly-famous theory of love.
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Plato's Symposium 2 - Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon
Professor Kozlowski takes on the justly famous speech-myth of Aristophanes and how it appeals to modern audiences. (Also Eryximachus and Agathon...)
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Plato's Symposium 1 - Phaedrus and Pausanias
Professor Kozlowski discusses the opening and first two speeches of Plato's Symposium, examining not just the content of the speeches, but the context Plato…
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Christians and Rights
In our first Patron-requested topic of the summer, Professor Kozlowski throws caution to the winds and addresses the contemporary state of American…
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The Future of Professor Kozlowski Lectures
A brief discussion of what you can expect from Professor Kozlowski Lectures in the coming months and years. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to…
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D&RN - Demons Destroyed
Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of Dostoevsky's Demons and his series on Russian Nihilism. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit…
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D&RN - The Demons' Fete
Time to party with the Demons. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/ or contact him…
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D&RN - Demons Bustle About
Finally we get to see Pyotr Stepanovich bustle about and put his dubious plans into motion. Today Professor Kozlowski contrasts the careers and adventures of…
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D&RN - Demons Unmasked
Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Dostoevsky's Demons by deeply examining the newly-revealed characters of Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin and…
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D&RN - Undercover Demons
Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Dostoevsky's Demons with an examination of many of the minor characters introduced so far, and how their…
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D&RN - Introducing Demons
Today Professor Kozlowski discusses the first two chapters of Dostoevsky's Demons, introduces three of our primary characters, and connects them to their…
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D&RN - Crime, Punishment, Debts, and Devils
Professor Kozlowski attempts to recount the developments in the Russian literary world between 1864 and 1871 (when Demons is written), including a brief…
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D&RN - Apropos of the Wet Snow
Professor Kozlowski tackles the second half of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, with special attention to exploring the references to 1840's Russian…
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D&RN - Underground
At long last, Professor Kozlowski confronts Dostoevsky's most widely discussed and controversial creation: Notes from Underground. Come for the tortured…
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D&RN - Chernyshevsky 3
Professor Kozlowski muses on the Utopian hopes and missing realities of Chernyshevsky's promised revolution at the end of What is to Be Done? To see what else…
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D&RN - Chernyshevsky 2
Now that we've gotten all the rage sweats cleaned up, it's time for Professor Kozlowski to take a deep dive into Chernyshevsky's convictions and ideology, both…
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D&RN - Chernyshevsky 1
Professor Kozlowski offers his first impressions of Chernyshevsky's What is to Be Done? Despite his efforts to be even-handed and charitable, there is still a…
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James Bond and Don Juan
To conclude his General Humanities class (again), Professor Kozlowski examines the broad-strokes legacy and theming of the James Bond franchise as an artifact…
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D&RN - Fathers and Sons 2
Professor Kozlowski concludes his examination of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons with a deep-dive look at Bazarov's painful relationship with his parents, his…
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The Cold War and the Late Twentieth Century
Professor Kozlowski belatedly continues his General Humanities class with a brief-ish (and very insufficient) discussion of the Cold War and the Late Twentieth…
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D&RN - Fathers and Sons 1
Today Professor Kozlowski discusses the first eighteen chapters of Turgenev's landmark novel, Fathers and Sons - where Turgenev coined the term "nihilism"…
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Dostoevsky and Russian Nihilism - Introduction
Our new series for spring 2024 is on Dostoevsky's Demons and the tumultuous state of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1860s that brought about some of…
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Pentateuch - Deuteronomy
Professor Kozlowski closes his discussion of the Pentateuch with an examination of Deuteronomy: its disputed authorship, its review of events past, its new…
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Pentateuch - Numbers 16-36
Professor Kozlowski recounts and explores the latter half of the book of Numbers, including many new complications in the relationship between God and the…
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Pentateuch - Numbers 1-15
Numbers is often maligned as a boring book about censuses and laws. But in this lecture, Professor Kozlowski explains the censuses and laws in terms of the…
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Pentateuch - Leviticus 16-27
Professor Kozlowski outlines the mixed bag of Levitical laws and prohibitions, taking time to discuss several of the major themes recurring throughout the…
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Pentateuch - Leviticus 1-15
Professor Kozlowski examines the laws of Leviticus and how they reveal new insights into God's Nature - though perhaps not as much as we might like. To see…
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How to Read the Bible
After a run of students asking for advice on learning about Christianity, Professor Kozlowski has decided to write and release his own guide for independently…
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Pentateuch - Exodus 31-40
The golden calf episode in Exodus 32-34 is one of the most important passages in the Bible, and one of the least understood or discussed. Today, Professor…
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Pentateuch - Exodus 15-30
After one of the most famous and exciting stories in the entire Bible comes...a bunch of laws and a famously boring series of chapters detailing the specific…
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WWT - Phaedo and Myth
Today, since Professor Kozlowski is feeling a bit sick, he has uploaded his World Wisdom Traditions lecture, in a true return-to-pandemic-origins! Today he's…
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Pentateuch - Exodus 1-14
Professor Kozlowski tackles "The Greatest Story Ever Told": The Exodus of Israel from Egypt. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage…
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Pentateuch - Genesis 23-50
Professor Kozlowski tackles the messy and enigmatic one-two punch of the Jacob and Joseph narratives in the back half of Genesis, with emphasis on the weird…
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Pentateuch - Genesis 4-22
Today Professor Kozlowski discusses the complicated, post-lapsarian world of early Genesis. He confronts some of the big ticket Genesis stories like Cain &…
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Pentateuch - Genesis 1-3
Hooray! It's finally time to actually read and discuss the Bible! But only a little bit, since the first three chapters of Genesis apparently warrant an entire…
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Pentateuch - Introduction
But didn't we introduce the Pentateuch LAST WEEK? Nope. Old Testament "Introduction" is a formal term encompassing all of the scholarship surrounding…
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Pentateuch - Hermeneutics
Professor Kozlowski kicks off his discussion of the Pentateuch with a rousing discussion of How to Read! Not joking. It's Hermeneutics time, folks. Time to…
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Notes - Lightning Round!
In this rapid-fire explanation and conclusion to the informal research notes series, Professor Kozlowski discusses the newly-finalized reading list for his…
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Notes on Radhakrishnan's "Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy" 2
Professor Kozlowski continues his study of Hindu Philosophy in Radhakrishnan's Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy by studying the schools of interpretation and…
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Notes on Radhakrishnan's "Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy" 1
Professor Kozlowski pivots from researching and discussing Native American philosophy to Hindu philosophy in this informal discussion. Here he'll discuss: 1…
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Notes on Erdoes, Jennings, et al.
Professor Kozlowski wraps up his discussion of Native American philosophy with a lightning round of books he's skimmed, partially-read, or hopes to read in the…
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Notes on Silko's "Ceremony"
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony was highly recommended by Cordova in her previously-discussed book on Native American philosophy, How it Is. Today, Professor…
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Notes on "American Indian Thought" ed. Anne Waters
American Indian Thought (edited by Anne Waters) is perhaps the primary sourcebook for Native American Philosophy today, but it's a strange, discordant book…
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Notes on V. F. Cordova's "How It Is"
Having decided to spend the summer researching (rather than trying to produce polished lectures), Professor Kozlowski begins to report his research in this…
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The Company We Keep
Professor Kozlowski concludes (perhaps prematurely) his discussion of the Ethics of Literature by delivering a broad-strokes summary of Wayne C. Booth's The…
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John Gardner's War on Nihilism
There are few matters in art criticism (and life) closer to Professor Kozlowski's heart than the mental/spiritual war against capital-N Nihilism - retaining…
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On Moral Fiction 1
Professor Kozlowski discusses the first half of John Gardner's On Moral Fiction: "Premises on Art and Morality", where we'll identify some of the current…
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Derrida to Literature
Professor Kozlowski interprets Derrida's "This Strange Institution Called Literature" according to his own idea of Derrida's philosophical program, perhaps…
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The Romantic Manifesto 2
Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto by examining Rand's confused description of Romanticism, her curious…
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The Romantic Manifesto 1
Professor Kozlowski embarks on his discussion of Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto with an examination of Ayn Rand's controversial legacy, philosophy, and…
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The Situation of the Writer in 2023
Professor Kozlowski returns to Sartre's What is Literature? to address Sartre's discussion of the situation of the writer in 1947, and expand on his…
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What is Literature? 1
Professor Kozlowski examines Sartre's phenomenological/aesthetic treatise: What is Literature? Along the way, he'll address issues of artistic…
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An Experiment in Criticism
Professor Kozlowski takes on C. S. Lewis' An Experiment in Criticism to examine the ethical responsibilities of the audience to a work of art or literature…
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The Responsibility of the Artist
Professor Kozlowski wrestles with one of the thorniest issues in the discussion of literature ethics: how do we reckon with bad people who make great art?…
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Dehumanization and Propaganda
Oh boy. Today Professor Kozlowski is talking about Ortega y Gasset's 1925 essay "The Dehumanization of Art", which observes that contemporary art movements…
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What is Art? 2
Professor Kozlowski wrestles with his own potentially-perverted artistic sensibilities by confronting Tolstoy's overall thesis on the function and definition…