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 Kozlowski discusses the book at some length...
26 Jun 20231h 45min
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 without a clear guiding structure or organiz...
20 Jun 20231h 55min
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 first informal "notes" lecture on V. F. Cord...
10 Jun 20232h 26min
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 Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction, alon...
6 Jun 20231h 41min
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 hope in the face of despair, remaining posi...
2 Jun 20231h 58min
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 philosophical ideas undermining the possibilit...
17 Mai 20231h 47min
Derrida to Literature
Professor Kozlowski interprets Derrida's "This Strange Institution Called Literature" according to his own idea of Derrida's philosophical program, perhaps against the "stable" interpretation propagat...
15 Mai 20231h 54min
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 application of Romantic ideals to popular, commer...
11 Apr 20231h 42min
