Nietzsche and Emerson, Fall 2013

These Franke Lectures have been organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar taught by Paul North, Associate Professor of German, and Paul Grimstad, Assistant Professor of English.

  • David Mikics, University of Houston, “Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World”
  • Ross Posnock, Columbia University, “On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: ‘How One Becomes What One Is’ in Nietzsche and Emerson”
  • Kathleen M. Higgins, University of Texas Austin, “ ‘Thoughts That Come on Doves’ Feet’: Philosophy as Experience in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche”
  • David Farrell Krell, Brown University, “Emerson, Nietzsche’s Voluptuary?”