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
Lost in Thought
An excellent example of what it aims to capture: solid, high-quality, splendidly useless thinking in action.
Time and Power
‘Time and Power’ aims to break with the ingrained belief that cyclical conceptions of time were eclipsed by a linear view of time
What Are We Doing Here?
Robinson submerges us in her intellectual as well as everyday world, which we finally leave far more knowledgeable and sensitive
All reviews
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’.
The Looshaus
Once we have grasped that point there is no chance of being distracted by the verbal pyrotechnics in Loos’s polemics from understanding his architectural achievements.
The Places In Between
Stewart’s self-reflexive narrative is very knowing of the fact that his trek through Afghanistan comes not so much after the emperor Babur as after international media coverage of Operation Enduring Freedom, the first phase of the War on Terror.
The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind
Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts
Pick sees both the necessity of the wartime militarization of psychoanalysis and the impossibility of accepting the theoretical principles upon which this was ostensibly based.
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.
Im Raum der Stille: Lektüren
Simply following Steiner’s train of thought constitutes a broadening of the reader's horizon
What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Josipovici portrays modern English literature as ‘anecdotal’, ‘smooth’, ‘complacent’, ‘predictable’, ‘comforting’, ‘constricting’ the sum total leaving him with a feeling that ‘the world has been made smaller and meaner’.
Reading Huizinga
Huizinga can find revelation in the clash of armies, in Jan van Eyck’s signature as witness to Giovanni Arnolfini’s wedding or the shimmering blue and yellow of a Vermeer dress.