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Podcast: Professor Kozlowski Lectures
Episode: Intro to Ethics of Literature
Description: 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 far as to suggest that some works are upright and morally-nourishing, while others are dangerous, or...