Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski concludes his series on The Brothers Karamazov and looks forward at the future of his Internet-based endeavors. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski,...

20 Apr 20221h 14min

Professor Kozlowski discusses the first half of the conclusion to The Brothers Karamazov, examining the climactic trial, its significance to the various characters and witnesses, and how we ought to u...

12 Apr 20221h 50min

Professor Kozlowski examines the many questions surrounding Ivan's interviews with Smerdykov and the Devil, and concludes that it's all just a dream. Calm down, y'all. If you have questions or topic ...

5 Apr 20221h 52min

Dostoevsky (and Professor Kozlowski) once again turns his attention to Brother Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov - but where is he? Three months have transpired and it seems that Alyosha keeps missing him, ...

29 Mar 20221h 21min

Professor Kozlowski looks at this sudden and seemingly-inexplicable tangent in Dostoevsky's storytelling: a diversion from the main story and characters to consider an otherwise unmet character, only ...

22 Mar 20221h 10min

Professor Kozlowski looks at the investigation and interrogation of Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov through three interpretive lenses: that of the popular detective novel or police procedural, the social...

16 Mar 20221h 29min

Professor Kozlowski discusses the latter half of Mitya's chapter, including his confrontation with (and generosity toward) the two poles, his success with Grushenka, and his remorse about killing (?)...

8 Mar 20221h 7min

Professor Kozlowski confronts Dostoevsky's Russian Nationalism in the light of Putin's war on Ukraine, as well as the whole of Dostoevsky's legacy - good and bad - in the hopes of justifying the celeb...

2 Mar 20221h 34min