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 Maj 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
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 career, before moving on to discuss her philo...
4 Apr 20231h 56min
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 observations there to discuss how that situation - ...
21 Mars 20232h 12min
What is Literature? 1
Professor Kozlowski examines Sartre's phenomenological/aesthetic treatise: What is Literature? Along the way, he'll address issues of artistic commercialization, the role of art and literature in clas...
11 Mars 20231h 51min
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, and to discuss how the world of criticism h...
22 Feb 20231h 55min
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? Jumping off from Maritain's The Responsibili...
15 Feb 20232h 1min
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 (like early modernism in literature, or abs...
7 Feb 20231h 56min
