Italy, 1952
Maurizio Viroli
political philosopher
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.
United Kingdom, 1944
Simon Blackburn
philosopher, meta-ethicist
Bulgaria, 1939 - 2017
Tzvetan Todorov
philosopher and historian of ideas
France, 1940
Gabriel Josipovici
British writer and academic
South Africa, 1952
Antjie Krog
South African poet and writer
Czech Republic, 1929 - 2023
Milan Kundera
Czech writer
Czech Republic, 1936 - 2011
Václav Havel
writer, dissident, politician
Germany, 1906 - 1949
Klaus Mann
writer, son of Thomas Mann
Hungary, 1900 - 1989
Sándor Márai
writer
United Kingdom, 1874 - 1965
Winston Churchill
statesman
Germany, 1875 - 1955
Thomas Mann
writer, Nobel Prize laureate
United Kingdom, 1882 - 1941
Virginia Woolf
modernist author
Scotland, 1955
John Leighton
museum director
Germany, 1864 - 1920
Max Weber
founding father of sociology
The Netherlands, 1970
Christien Roovers
editor
France, 1871 - 1945
Paul Valéry
poet
United States, 1952
Mitchell Cohen
author The Politics of Opera
United States, 1936
John Felstiner
English literature scholar, translator of Celan
United States
David Dubal
piano expert, teacher at Juilliard
United States, 1935
Robert Alter
literary scholar and Bible expert
United States, 1956
Mark Lilla
historian of ideas
United States
Marilyn McCully
Picasso expert
The Netherlands, 1955
Eric Moormann
classical archaeologist
Serbia, 1911 - 1995
Milovan Djilas
communist politican, dissident and writer