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.
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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.