Denmark, 1950
Mark Le Fanu
film historian
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.
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
The Netherlands, 1740 - 1805
Belle van Zuylen
writer between Enlightenment and Romanticism
United Kingdom, 1958
Steven Beller
Central Europe and Jewish history scholar
Germany, 1964
Michael Brenner
expert in modern Jewish history
Israel, 1939
Avishai Margalit
Israeli philosopher and author The Ethics of Memory
United Kingdom, 1949
Henry Hardy
editor of Isaiah Berlin
India, 1933
Amartya Sen
Nobel Prize winner and development economist
The Netherlands, 1952 - 2014
Willem Witteveen
legal scholar and Senator
United States, 1947
Martha Nussbaum
Belgium, 1957 - 2009
Patricia de Martelaere
philosopher and writerphilosopher and writer
Belgium, 1949
Donald Loose
philosopher and theologian
United States, 1941
Allan Janik
at home in Wittgenstein’s Vienna
United States, 1957
Peter Sellars
theatre director
Germany, 1907 - 2001
Hans Mayer
literary scholar, musicologist
United States
Karen Rosenberg
writer
France, 1871 - 1922
Marcel Proust
fin de siècle writer