Скачать или смотреть Why Cowards Reject Beauty | Dostoevsky, Brutalism & Prophecy (w/ Clay Greene - Ep. 3)

Clay Greene is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Austin (UATX). He is a scholar of early modern literature and thought — and he hosts UATX's poetry club.

This is Episode 3 of The Uncaptive Mind Podcast, hosted by UATX Digital Editor Audrey Unverferth. It was recorded on April 30, 2025.

00:00 — Preview
00:29 — John Keats lay dying
04:31 — Keats's poem "To Autumn"
08:00 — Cowards reject beauty
10:36 — Roger Scruton on the cult of ugliness
11:01 — Do you like modern architecture?
13:48 — Anti-art
15:22 — Why beauty still matters
17:39 — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture
20:52 — Today's crisis
24:15 — Our response
26:01 — Modern universities are relativistic
28:57 — What you should read
32:11 — Dostoevsky vs. Tolstoy
32:24 — Dostoevsky made me realize I believe in God
33:57 — Is suffering beautiful?

Links:
UATX: https://www.uaustin.org
UATX on X: https://x.com/uaustinorg
Audrey Unverferth on X: https://x.com/audrey_unver