United Kingdom, 1909 - 2007
Alexander King
co-founder Club of Rome
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.
Germany, 1926 - 2016
Fritz Stern
described the rise of national socialism in Europe
Germany, 1913 - 2007
Konrad Kellen
political scientist, private secretary to Thomas Mann
Germany, 1918 - 2002
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Thomas Mann's youngest daughter, environmental expert and political scientist
United States, 1918 - 2013
Joseph Frank
biographer of Dostoevsky
United States, 1941
Paul Mendes-Flohr
specialist in Jewish history
Poland, 1944
Marcin Król
writer, historian of ideas
Chile, 1955
Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt Letelier
Chilean historian
Argentina, 1948
Alberto Manguel
writer and bibliophile
Czech Republic, 1885 - 1970
Erich Kahler
literary scholar and essayist
Romania, 1929 - 2010
Avigdor Arikha
artist, art historian
United States, 1927 - 2012
Charles Rosen
pianist, writer and scholar
United Kingdom, 1937
Edward Timms
cultural historian and Karl Kraus biographer
United Kingdom, 1923 - 2003
Richard Wollheim
philosopher of art and emotions
Germany, 1935
Hans Belting
art historian
Germany, 1938
Jan Assmann
egyptologist
Greece, 1946
Alexander Nehamas
combines philosophy and literary studies
Jordan, 1966
Ghazi bin Muhammad
prince and Professor of Philosophy
Poland, 1927 - 2009
Leszek Kolakowski
Polish thinker and historian of ideas
Uruquay, 1958
Moshe Halbertal
professor of Jewish thought
Russia, 1874 - 1948
Nikolai Berdjajev
Marxist cultural and religious philosopher
Germany, 1937
Karsten Harries
philosopher who writes on aesthetics
Switzerland, 1934
Hans Saner
philosopher
The Netherlands, 1944
Jacq Vogelaar
writer and literary critic