Videos

Dr. Ross Posnock

"On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: ‘How One Becomes What One Is’ in Nietzsche and Emerson"

October 3, 2013

Dr. Ross Posnock is Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He delivers a lecture titled “On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: ‘How One Becomes What One Is’ in Nietzsche and Emerson...

Dr. David Mikics

"Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World"

September 26, 2013

Dr. David Mikics is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor in English and the Honors College at the University of Houston. His lecture “Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World” was given as part of the...

Alberto Manguel

"Borges and the Impossibility of Writing"

February 3, 2010

Alberto Manguel, author of A Reader on Reading and The Library at Night delivers the 2010 Finzi-Contini Lectures at Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center.