The Netherlands, 1942
Jattie Enklaar
German literature expert
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.
Belgium, 1966
Toon van Houdt
classical scholar
France, 1949
Pierre Manent
political philosopher in the French liberal tradition
France, 1929 - 2020
George Steiner
cultural philosopher
France, 1924 - 2010
Claude Lefort
anti-totalitarian socialist philosopher
Germany, 1927 - 2004
Albert Friedlander
rabbi
The Netherlands, 1918 - 1995
Ruth Wolf
writer and translator
Hungary, 1921 - 2010
Thomas Molnar
Catholic thinker
United States, 1956
Michael Steinberg
researcher of German Jewish cultural history and music
Belgium, 1946 - 2019
Gilbert Hottois
philosopher
Belgium, 1946
Arnold Burms
philosopher
The Netherlands
Maria Brouwer
economist
The Netherlands, 1952
Hans van der Ploeg
psychiatrist
Belgium, 1929 - 2004
Herman Servotte
priest and English scholar
Germany, 1930 - 2012
Rena Fuks-Mansfeld
Professor in Jewish History
Austria, 1959
Karl Enenkel
classical scholar
Germany, 1960
Jean-Marc Piret
philosopher of law
Indonesia, 1937 – 2022
A.C. Zijderveld
cultural sociologist
The Netherlands, 1928 - 1992
Johan Polak
publisher, classical scholar, essayist, book collector
The Netherlands, 1947
Jaap Goedegebuure
Dutch scholar and literary critic
Greece, 1930
Constantin Floros
musicologist and Mahler expert
The Netherlands, 1953
Ton Naaijkens
Germanist and translator
United States, 1931
Arthur Mitzman
historian
The Netherlands, 1923 - 2013
Joseph Lescrauwaet
Roman Catholic cleric