Professor Kozlowski Lectures
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/
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 91 minutes
- Episodes
- 280
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Bulgakov Chapters 1-4
Professor Kozlowski embarks on his discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, beginning with the devil's mysterious appearance in Russia, Soviet antipathy to religion, and why Bulgako…
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Professor Kozlowski discusses Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" - a love letter to Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" which totally misses the moral point underlying Irving's st…
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Professor Kozlowski discusses two key chapters of Fyodor Dostoevsky's massive, ugly masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov. We touch especially on Ivan's arc through the story, and how Dostoevsky uses …
Byron's Don Juan
Professor Kozlowski takes a stab at interpreting Byron's satirical labyrinth: Don Juan. Including:
Hypocrisy!
The obvious(?) conflict between classical education and conventional morality!
Hypocrisy…
The Devil and Tom Walker
Professor Kozlowski discusses Washington Irving's delightful and cutting short story of social satire and satanic shenanigans: "The Devil and Tom Walker". This includes some discussion of where the …
Faust Scenes 20-28
Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of Goethe's Faust, Part One by discussing the fall of Gretchen/Margareta, and touching briefly on the conclusion of Faust, Part Two for the sake of closur…
Faust Scenes 10-19
Professor Kozlowski finally reaches plot development in Goethe's Faust, Part One. He discusses Margareta as a character, Faust's (and the audience's) relationship to her, and the looming sense of de…
Faust Scenes 6-9
Professor Kozlowski discusses scenes 6-9 of Goethe's Faust, Part One, focusing primarily on Mephistopheles and the bargain/wager struck with Faust.
Faust Scenes 1-5
Professor Kozlowski discusses the first five scenes of Goethe's Faust, Part One, including the strange and tangled construction of the play, Goethe's biography, similarities to Marlowe's Doctor Faust…
Milton's Paradise Lost
Professor Kozlowski dissects the first Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, and constructs an argument that Milton is making a case for the royalist faction in the 17th-century British Civil War. Is Sata…
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Professor Kozlowski discusses Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the famous Elizabethan treatment of the Faust legend by the contemporary of Shakespeare.
For anyone following along online, this re…
Dante's Inferno
Professor Kozlowski presents a crash course in the medieval worldview, in which he discusses the basic tenets of the Christian gospel, and discusses Dante's Inferno in terms of its alignment with med…
19th Century German Emigration
Professor Kozlowski tackles listener Kit's question: What ideas did German immigrants bring to America in the 19th Century. Predictably, the answer is neither straightforward nor simple - but Profes…
Sartre and Phenomenological Reduction
At long last, Professor Kozlowski answers the question posed by Pavel Pavlovic of Belgrade: Is the Phenomenological Reduction of Jean-Paul Sartre transgressive? On the way, we'll talk about Bad Fait…
Intro to Logic 2021
Professor Kozlowski updates his Intro to Logic episode with some video game recommendations, an explicit discussion of the four historical periods and five classical branches of philosophy, and some …
Spring 21 SCCC Syllabus Lecture
Another new semester means another syllabus lecture from Professor Kozlowski. This lecture features post-nervous-breakdown content like additional precautions against plagiarism and a desperate atte…
Introduction to Phenomenology
Professor Kozlowski provides a very rough-strokes overview of the history of 19th Century Phenomenology - specifically Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Husserl - as preparation to discuss his…
Philosophy of America - Post-Modernism
Professor Kozlowski throws caution to the wind, transgresses the boundaries of good taste, and proceeds to argue that the problems typical to 21st Century American culture have more to do with Post-M…
The Philosophy of America - Conclusion
Professor Kozlowski bloviates his way to understanding the change between the American philosophy of the nation's founders and American philosophy today - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Along the …