Ross Posnock, Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, delivers a lecture "On the Pleasures of Self-Misunderstanding: 'How One Becomes What One Is' in Nietzsche and Emerson," on October 3, 2013 as part of the Fall 2013 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center which presented perspectives on the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ralph Waldo Emerson.