The Brothers Karamazov - Introduction
Professor Kozlowski embarks on a new semester-long project: reading through Dostoevsky's mammoth, messy magnum opus: The Brothers Karamazov. We'll be reading the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation on a w...
4 Jan 20221h 2min
Navel-Gazing and Other Techniques of the Self
Professor Kozlowski closes out his Love and Friendship class with some discussion of Foucault, but mostly by thinking out loud about the past, present, and future of his podcast, his workload, and whe...
6 Okt 20211h 6min
Queer Theory, Identity, Sexuality, and Shame
Professor Kozlowski well oversteps his expertise and discusses the ideas presented in early texts on Queer Theory, namely Michel Foucault's "Friendship as a Way of Life" and "Sex, Power, and the Polit...
6 Okt 20211h 49min
Feminism and Love
Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Love in the 20th Century by examining the four waves of feminism and touching on several important texts written by feminist authors on the subject of L...
4 Okt 20211h 45min
Christian Apologists
Professor Kozlowski wanders off the beaten path of philosophical canon to discuss the attitudes on Love and Friendship most important to him personally: the account of love in G. K. Chesterton's Manal...
4 Okt 20211h 43min
Freud!
Professor Kozlowski discusses Freud today. What could go wrong? CW: sex/sexuality, incest, rape, heteronormativity, childhood trauma, mental illness, coprophilia, love as a purely physical process, s...
29 Sep 20211h 57min
Reacting to Romanticism: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard
Professor Kozlowski takes on some of the most divisive and dangerous thinkers in the history of the canon - along with some explanation of 19th-century obsessions like Social Darwinism, rampant Natura...
29 Sep 20211h 43min
Goethe's Romanticism
Professor Kozlowski guides us carefully through Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wertherism, and the tangled, radical philosophy of Romanticism as we embark on our study of nineteenth-century ph...
23 Sep 20211h 30min
