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Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Benjamin Kozlowski

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/

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01:47:51

On Moral Fiction 1

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/05/17

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 possibility of moral fiction in the 1970's (and today), examine those issues in many writers contemporary to Gardner, and think about the ways that modern media is equally evasive of or troubled by these problems. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage:

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01:54:30

Derrida to Literature

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/05/15

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 propagated by self-proclaimed Derrideans. Is this a valid act of interpretation, worthy of its own elevation to stability? May any act of interpretation be considered "less" or "more" valid than any other act of interpretation? Is the assumption of validity a

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01:42:16

The Romantic Manifesto 2

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/04/11

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, commercial art, and her examination of the pedagogical function of art, especially for children. Can we reconcile the valuable insights of Rand artistic philosophy with her hostile, narrow view of what constitutes great art? To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage:

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01:56:40

The Romantic Manifesto 1

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/04/04

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 philosophy of art and literature, and making a case for her perspicacious take on art's power and effect. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/ And please consider contributing to Professor Kozlowski's Patreon

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02:12:48

The Situation of the Writer in 2023

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/03/21

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 - and how literature itself - has changed in 2023. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/ And please consider contributing to Professor Kozlowski's Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski - where you'll

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01:51:23

What is Literature? 1

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/03/11

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 class conflict, and how one's historical and cultural moment changes the way a writer interacts with the world. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/ And please consider contributing to Professor Kozlowski's Patreon at:

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01:55:24

An Experiment in Criticism

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/02/22

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 has changed in fifty years. Among other topics, he'll discuss: bad-faith criticism, criticism from marginalized perspectives, intrinsic and extrinsic criticism, and Lewis' own problems with elitist gatekeeping and inflammatory criticism for self-aggrandizement. Suggested supplementary readings

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02:01:57

The Responsibility of the Artist

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/02/15

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 Responsibility of the Artist, he attempts to lay out an explanation of 1) How realistic and compelling depictions of evil in art and literature don't have to be necessarily immoral; 2) How it may be possible for bad people to make compelling, powerful, and impeccably moral art; 3) Where and when it is appropriate to

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01:56:10

Dehumanization and Propaganda

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/02/07

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 abstraction and dada in visual art) are "dehumanizing", or de-prioritizing human experience in favor of artifice itself. But he's actually going to talk about the political dimension of art and literature - how politicians in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War co-opted art and artists to serve propagandist

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01:53:44

What is Art? 2

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/02/01

Professor Kozlowski wrestles with his own potentially-perverted artistic sensibilities by confronting Tolstoy's overall thesis on the function and definition of good art, as well as trying to assess, deconstruct, and make sense of Tolstoy's sometimes seemingly-contradictory and erratic artistic judgments by redefining them according to contemporary wisdom and categories of understanding. Suggested supplementary readings include: Tolstoy's own short stories, especially "God Sees the Truth, But Waits"

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01:47:13

What is Art? 1

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/01/26

Professor Kozlowski tackles the first half of Tolstoy's aesthetic masterwork (?) What is Art? to isolate and examine (1) Tolstoy's grievances with art in the late nineteenth century (and (1b) how much of that applies to contemporary artistic criticism), (2) the failings in other aesthetic systems at the time, (3) Tolstoy's own (admittedly-ambiguous and problematic) principles of artistic merit, and (4) how Tolstoy's targets (including Baudelaire, Impressionism, Shakespeare, and Beethoven's 9th

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01:49:20

Tolstoy Essays on Art

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/01/17

Professor Kozlowski reads a wide variety of Tolstoy's essays on art, including his "Schoolboys and Art," "Introduction to Semyonov's Peasant Stories," "Introduction to the Works of Guy de Maupassant," "On Art (NOT the same as What is Art?)," and "Afterword to Chekov's 'Darling'". Through these writings, we'll track the development of Tolstoy's thoughts on art, including his normative definition of art, the three criteria Tolstoy employs to discuss art, and how he applies these aesthetic principles

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01:31:56

TTW SP23 Syllabus

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/01/12

Professor Kozlowski introduces his online section of Troy and the Trojan War for Spring 2023, explaining the rough outline of the course, the expectations for conduct, grading procedures, and general advice for student performance. Non-students need not listen.

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01:37:37

Ethics of Lit: Leaf By Niggle

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/01/10

For the first proper lecture in Ethics of Literature, Professor Kozlowski discusses Tolkien's often-overlooked short story, "Leaf By Niggle." This serves two purposes: by closely examining and interpreting the story, we can determine much of Tolkien's morality and values, just as many of the writers we discuss in future weeks will examine and interpret other works of literature; Tolkien also uses this story to present many of his own thoughts on the value of art and the ethics of creating art, which

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01:35:42

Intro to Ethics of Literature

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2023/01/04

Professor Kozlowski begins our discussion of the ethics of literature with a simple question: Is Speaking Ethical? The answer may be simple, but the implementation, and the study of how a work of literature can affect us - for something as simple as its entertainment value, for something as abstract as its beauty, or for something as profound as the imposition of a new ideological perspective - is endlessly complicated. Yet many thinkers have weighed in on these complicated effects, and even gone so

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01:35:46

Replaying Assassins' Creed 4: Black Flag

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2022/12/31

Though Professor Kozlowski admittedly did not play much further, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag remains his favorite game in the franchise, even if it discards or sidelines many of the gameplay elements and characteristics that have defined the series up to this point. But that raises an interesting question: Is Assassin's Creed at its best when it abandons its fundamental assumptions and principles? - or does Black Flag have more in common with its predecessors than meets the eye? If you have

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00:52:50

Let's All Kill Bradbury (Constance 2)

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2022/12/03

Professor Kozlowski concludes his series on Ray Bradbury by eating crow and admitting that his understanding of Bradbury's art and objectives may be biased by an over-close reading of Fahrenheit 451. Perhaps Let's All Kill Constance is more a reflection of Bradbury's wild and uncontrollable creativity, and his passion for making big ideas without worrying too much about the details or execution. If you want to support Professor Kozlowski's lectures and research - or if you want to vote for new

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01:38:53

Let's All Kill Constance 1

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2022/11/28

Professor Kozlowski wrestles with the existential horror of realizing that Ray Bradbury, one of his favorite writers, may have turned into a hack and hypocrite during his later career. He therefore delivers a confused, half-intelligible discussion of how Bradbury's 2003 detective-noir-ish Let's All Kill Constance fails to stand up to scrutiny from the perspective of its genre, its own idolization of early Hollywood, conventional writing wisdom, and Bradbury's own standards of good art. If you have

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01:26:28

Something Wicked This Way Comes 2

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2022/11/21

Professor Kozlowski contends with the wild second half of Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, interrogating the way that Bradbury depicts the good and evil forces of the novel and portrays their struggle, using that as an opportunity to interrogate Bradbury's development as a writer and thinker as he grows older and less restrained. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit

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01:28:38

Something Wicked This Way Comes 1

Professor Kozlowski Lectures ·

2022/11/15

Professor Kozlowski wildly gestures at the irrational logic of Bradbury's novel of boys, dark carnivals, and nightmare happenings: Something Wicked This Way Comes. By examining the style and language of Bradbury's prose in this, his (perhaps) most characteristically Bradbury-an novel, perhaps we'll draw closer to an understanding of how this work defies expectations and reaches its own internal, illogical, consistency. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at

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