Speakers and authors

The journal Nexus was founded in 1991, the Nexus Institute three years later. Since then, a large number of international thinkers, artists, scholars and politicians have published in Nexus or taken part in one of the Institute’s activities. Below you find an overview of all our authors and speakers.

Romania, 1943

Moshe Idel

expert on Jewish mysticism

United Kingdom, 1942

Nicholas Mann

involved with the intellectual life of Europe as a writer and a policy maker

Spain, 1947

Juan Ángel Vela del Campo

Spanish music critic and journalist

Germany, 1943

Paul Michael Lützeler

Hermann Broch expert
Jonathan Israel

United Kingdom, 1946

Jonathan Israel

Enlightenment historian

France, 1952

Jean-Louis Chrétien

philosopher, theologist, poet

Germany, 1929-2026

Jürgen Habermas

philosopher and sociologist

Poland, 1946

Adam Michnik

former Polish dissident, general editor of the Gazeta Wyborcza

Italy, 1945

Daniela Bini

expert on nineteenth-century Italian literature

Italy, 1942

Benedetta Craveri

cultural historian and European humanist

Italy, 1933 - 2017

Ugo Dotti

Petrarch expert

Algeria, 1941 - 2014

Jean-François Mattéi

political philosopher

Spain, 1947

Fernando Savater

Spanish thinker
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United States, 1930

Lewis Lockwood

musicologist, Beethoven expert

France, 1935

Georges Nivat

specialist in Russian dissident literature

The Netherlands, 1952

Hein van Oorschot

executive officer

Germany, 1940

Claus Offe

political sociologist

Austria, 1953

Konrad Paul Liessmann

philosopher and essayist

United Kingdom, 1950

Alison Wolf

economist, educational advisor

United States, 1958

David Steiner

education commissioner

The Netherlands, 1952

Louise Fresco

agronomist, author

Poland, 1923 - 2010

Shmuel Eisenstadt

sociologist

Sweden, 1968

Fredrik Ullén

pianist and neuroscientist