Italy, 1923 - 1977
Cristina Campo
poet, essayist, translator
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 States, 1956
Clare Cavanagh
scholar of Slavic literature
Italy, 1941 – 2021
Roberto Calasso
writer and publisher at Adelphi
The Netherlands, 1936
Theo van de Klundert
economist
United States, 1939 - 2017
Benjamin Barber
political scientist
Germany, 1920 - 2015
Richard von Weizsäcker
former German President
Austria, 1902 - 1994
Karl Popper
prominent twentieth-century philosopher of science
United States, 1938 - 1993
John Condry
developmental psychologist
France, 1933
Paul Thibaud
philosopher and journalist
France, 1949
Alain Finkielkraut
philosopher, cultural pessimist
Poland, 1945
Eva Hoffman
writer and professor of creative writing
Hungary, 1933-2019
György Konrád
writer and essayist
Canada, 1947
Michael Ignatieff
politician, intellectual and moral philosopher
Indonesia, 1940
Jan van der Dussen
philosopher
Belgium, 1926
Louis Dupré
Catholic philosopher
Denmark, 1950
Mark Le Fanu
film historian
Hungary, 1952
László F. Földényi
brilliant essayist and main contributor to our journal Nexus
Finland, 1916 - 2003
Georg Wright
philosopher, Wittgenstein expert
Austria, 1941
Gerald Stieg
German scholar
Germany, 1945
Rüdiger Safranski
writes about German Romanticism
Germany, 1962
Gerhard Lauer
literary scholar
Lithuania, 1906 - 1997
Isaiah Berlin
political philosopher, liberal thinker
United Kingdom, 1948
John Gray
political philosopher and skeptic
The Netherlands, 1917 - 1999
Pierre Dubois
writer and biographer