Mitchell Cohen
United States, 1952
Mitchell Cohen is Professor of Political Theory at the City University of New York. He specializes in the political theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and in contemporary European politics. Between 1991 and 2009, he was co-editor (wit Michael Walzer) of the cultural-political journal Dissent, which still frequently publishes his articles. His essays also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement and Les Temps Modernes. His work The Politics of Opera (2017) received the Prose Award for Music of the Association of American Publishers and was named one of the best books of 2017 in the London Evening Standard. He is currently working on a new book, The Political Passions of Richard Wagner.
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The Ring
or What Will Rule the World?
Sunday 10 November
9.30 – 16.00
National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam

The Questor Hero
Gustav Mahler’s Ultimate Questions
14 May 2011
9.40 - 17.30
Het Muziektheater Amsterdam

The Return of the Ghosts
Nexus Symposium
11 November 2010
13.30 - 17.45
Auditorium Tilburg University

Living European Values
Arts and Education
23 October 2004
09.00 - 17.00
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlijn

No Place for Cosmopolitans?
Nexus Conference 1999
8 October 1999
9.35 - 21.45
Tilburg University