Reviews
In Nexus Review, professional experts and young talents review classical works, groundbreaking studies and topical essays on art, culture, history, politics and philosophy, combining a critical outlook with a broad vision and an accessible style. The books discussed in Nexus Review offer a broad view of culture, society and history that goes beyond a myopic concern with current affairs.
Spotlight
The Intimacies of Four Continents
Lisa Lowe’s new monograph is indispensable for anyone interested in political theory, history and postcolonialism.
The Age of Genius
The Age of Genius seems as ambitious and eccentric as any of Grayling’s undertakings, but finds itself undermined by exactly those qualities.
Anti-Judaism
Tracing the various images of Judaism and anti-Judaism over time is a daunting task. That said, Nirenberg’s goals and methods are clearly defined and the end result is an intellectual tour-de-force.
All reviews
The Unnamable Present
This book deals with a wealth of characters and topics: from Baudelaire to Kafka, Benjamin and Weil; from sacrifice to the sacred, the process of secularization and digital society.
The Age of Genius
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
The Age of Genius seems as ambitious and eccentric as any of Grayling’s undertakings, but finds itself undermined by exactly those qualities.
Friendship
Grayling seeks to define friendship and, in so doing, explores its many forms, facets, charms, and consolations.
A Philosophical History of Love
Uninitiated undergraduates are in for a feast of nourishing ideas about love, whereas their professors will tend to grumble about the book’s smorgasbord character.
Ethics
An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Apart from a polemical assault on other ethical doctrines and the politics they sustain, this book provides a sketch of Badiou’s ethics of ‘processes of truth’.
Das Recht der Freiheit
Grundriß einer demokratischen Sittlichkeit
Honneth follows Durkheim instead of Marx in interpreting the capitalist market not as system of domination but as an institution that promises the general realization of individual interests and capacities.